Do you approve the replacement or does Chile disappear without Alexis...

It was not the expected start for the Chilean National Team in the qualifying process towards the Qatar World Cup 2022. And it is that on this double date, La Roja only achieved one point out of six possible, remaining in the seventh box, only ahead of Peru, Venezuela and Bolivia.

The road began in the worst way: he was lost in the agony before Uruguay, with controversial theft of the VAR included, and could not stand before Colombia yielding the tie in discounts, courtesy of Radamel Falcao García.

In fact, since it is played in the current format, the Equipo de Todos equaled the worst start of a route to a planetary event: the 2002 World Cup in Korea – Japan, which saw the Creoles in last place. This, after being thrashed against Argentina and after equalizing against the Inca at home.

Despite this, there were footballers who stood out in both crosses and other findings that left good feelings in the face of the 16 dates that remain to be played. But there were also those who were left in debt.

How was the Chilean National Team?

In that context, Alexis Sanchez Y Arturo vidal They demonstrated their entire hierarchy, which makes them the best national values ​​today. Before the Charrúa, the former Barcelona midfielder was the figure in Montevideo, demonstrating the personality and deployment that is always used both in clubs and at the national team level. While in front of the coffee growers, and despite the fact that Carlos Queiroz’s team took advantage of his mistake, he amended his mistake by achieving parity. They also committed a penalty to the former Bayern Munich that was changed for a goal (25 for La Roja, equaling the mark held by Carlos Caszely in the fifth box of the top scorers).

The Inter forward, meanwhile, confirmed his great moment against the Orientals, marking the partial tie after the goal, from a penalty, by Luis Suárez. While against Tri he recorded his signature for 2-1, reaching, incidentally, the 45 conquests by the red team (17 by Qualifiers, reaching the line of Iván Zamorano).

El Niño Maravilla took advantage of an error by Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, controlling the ball to define before the departure of Camilo Vargas. With another player at his level on offense, the story would have changed. “We can’t change attackers if we don’t have someone to feed them”, the coach from Cali answered Goal about it.

The other players benefited were Francisco Sierralta, Paulo Díaz and Claudio Baeza. The Watford defender, who started against the injuries of Gary Medel and Guillermo Maripán, annulled the Pistolero in the Centennial duel and once again demonstrated solidity against the Colombians holding Duván Zapata closely. Of course, it will be one of the absences that Rueda will regret against Peru due to his accumulation of yellow cards. Sierralta provided a clean start, meters ahead of Brayan Cortés boosting his bonuses to inherit Bravo’s legacy from leadership and command.

The River Plate defender, who took the place of Mauricio Isla in the foreground, served as a center-back at Nacional and also covered the left wing when Sebastián Vegas, from Monterrey’s records, was outmatched. Of course, his projection on the right hand was not the most productive against Celeste.

The Necaxa midfielder, meanwhile, took confidence after the Chilean goal on eastern soil and managed to be an important support for Charles Aránguiz and Vidal himself. The Caleño replied with the same success in his official debut in the Ñuñoa stronghold for the points, managing to relieve Erick Pulgar and his characteristic neatness.

In the cold numbers, the former Colo Colo – who did not transcend towards the offensive and took more care of his defenders – made 49 touches against the coffee growers, losing only three times the ball, while the Bayer Leverkusen midfielder, who in both games did not He showed his greatest potential despite assisting the Tocopilla-born against Uruguay, made two fewer touches and failed 12 times.

The left wing is a question that continues to drag on since the end of the Beausejour era. Without Parot, due to lack of activity at the Catholic University, neither Nico Díaz nor Seba Vegas demonstrated solvency, although it was past -and even more so that of Mazatlán-, and despite the fact that there were no serious failures, it is the former Italian Audax who decisively clears in Falcao’s goal, seconds after Paulo Díaz did the same by bursting it in the air and leaving that ball in play in an action that he even had to explain at the press conference: “I rejected the demand and these are things that can happen.”

Finally, the player who notoriously was in debt was Eduardo Vargas, who only contributed two shots in both games. The man from Tigres, was very far from his level, and even showed why he was not a staple of the strategist on this roster, who then ended up citing him before the few variants on offense. His presence did not manage to act as a risk factor for the defenses, he was tied up and only when he left the area did he find certain spaces, which takes him away from his best days when he was the soul of the area.

For this reason, after the crossing that closed the date, the former Manchester United left a strong criticism of the need for a replacement. “You have to wait for it, but move fast at the same time. The Selection has to click in every way. We must continue growing at the youth level, today I do not see any. The ANFP must also continue to grow, the complex, everything “Sánchez commented.

“New players are coming, I don’t know what Alexis will see. There are many young people who are taking their first steps and, I think, they have done well (…) The case of (Francisco) Sierralta, Nicolás (Díaz), (Sebastián) Vegas … there are several who are here for a reason. You have to keep watching young football “, Paulo Díaz replied.

Without a fresh attack, Alexis lives on an island. And as he becomes more experienced, he takes over the center field and tries to combine more on the inside than on the outside. In search of his ideal eleven, Rueda got 1 point out of 2 acceptable performances And despite the fact that November is vital, he will have to rethink names so that his first meeting with Ñuñoa does not happen: he looked at the bank so much and never found how to refresh up the necessary variants to close a victory that ended in the penalties of an agonizing draw . The replacement is, from the middle to the back, and although only question marks appear above it is a step that has not been taken since Medel-Jara left memory. There are a few pieces missing to empower Vidal and Alexis, Rueda’s brains heading to Qatar.