The chilean team is two days away from its debut in the America Cup of United States 2024. This Friday, June 21, La Roja faces Peru in Clásico del Pacífico, for the first date of Group A of the continental tournament, and the alerts in the team led by Ricardo Gareca are on target.
In practice this Wednesday, Claudio Bravo left the goal again due to his physical problems and Tigre opted again to Gabriel Arias as a relief, confirming that the Racing player definitely won the place of third goalkeeper from Brayan Cortés.
This being the case, and if Claudio Bravo cannot be in the debut, Arias will surely be Chile’s starting goalkeeper against Peru. In Sports in Agriculture they exploded due to the setback of Cortés in Ricardo Gareca’s team.
“I think it is unfair, Cortés is the second goalkeeper due to his performance in the national team. By pedigree and where he plays he could be Arias, but for me he has not responded with confidence in the national team,” said Francisco Sagredo.
“I wouldn’t even have mentioned Arias”
Juan Cristóbal Guarello argued that “there is an issue of cold performance, which Gareca likes Arias more, but there is an issue with the team’s performance and I get the feeling that Arias has never felt comfortable or supported by the environment or the fans… he has never been happy in the national team’s goal and he has always had a lot of pressure, since he had to replace Claudio Bravo unexpectedly in 2019, because there was a conflict that exceeded whether Arias was there or not.”
King Kong adds that “Arias found himself with a responsibility and with the pressure and reference of Bravo, who was then at Manchester City. He has never fully consolidated himself. In general he had opted for Cortés, who responded in general. Since he plays chili, when he leans on the goalkeeper, Cortés is closer to Bravo compared to Arias, who is more rustic with his feet and becomes very complicated. But Gareca is irreducible.”
For its part, Manuel De Tezanos He said that “Chile has a tendency to take refuge in their goalkeeper automatically, without thinking about it. The pressed defender tends to go back, even with Cortés, Toselli and Herrera to a lesser extent than Bravo, but they were the others who played. “Arias in the first two innings with his feet against Paraguay made the entire stadium nervous.”
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Patricio Yáñez considered that La Roja’s second goalkeeper should be “Cortés a while ago.” De Tezanos concludes very harshly: “I would not even have called Arias to the national team, I prefer Cortés and another young man instead of a 37-year-old goalkeeper who no longer performed in the national team.”
When does the Chilean team play in the Copa América?
For Group A of the 2024 United States Copa América, Ricardo Gareca’s La Roja will debut against Peru in the Clásico del Pacífico on June 21. Then they will play against Argentina (Tuesday, June 25) and Canada (Saturday, June 29).
