The Chilean National Team had a disappointing debut within the Copa America 2024in which those led by Ricardo Gareca They did not show a good soccer version and ended up drawing without goals against the Peruvian National Team in Arlington.
After this duel, the journalist Cristian Caamaño On Radio Agricultura he had words for what the match against the ‘Rímac’ team was like, in which he went all out against the people who missed Arturo vidal for this duel.
“No, it is not a Vidal issue, it is a character issue, it is a game issue, people forget that with Vidal Chile did not go to the last two World Cups,” Caamaño began by indicating.
Continuing along that line, the communicator added “it is not an issue of players who are or are not, this is an issue of functioning and unfortunately we returned to being that one-speed team, not that two- or three-speed team that we saw. against Paraguay.”
Detailing what this match was about, the panelist declared that playing in this tiring way it becomes very complex to be able to make differences against rivals of the same level as Peru today, and that worries him too much thinking about the Qualifiers South Americans.
“When you play at a single pace it becomes difficult for you and it becomes difficult for you against Peru, which is more or less our benchmark, it becomes difficult for you against Peru, Paraguay, Bolivia, Venezuela, but then the second link Chile has little chance in the qualifiers playing like this to hurt Colombia, to recover points with Uruguay, then there we have to start looking for alternatives, recover what was shown in the friendlies,” he argued.
Finally, Caamaño gives a tremendous slap on the wrist to Ricardo Gareca and his team, thinking about what the next duel of this group phase is, in which the Chilean National Team will have to face Argentina, in which he points out that Playing as seen against Peru, ‘La Roja’ will have a very bad time.
“Playing like this, Argentina paints your face, without problems, be careful, Chile is not up to the task, but playing like this today, Chile is going to have a very bad time against Argentina and that is going to be very lapidary for its aspirations in this Copa América . What happened in Chile was very worrying and leaves many exciting things open,” he concluded.
