The last game of the knockout rounds in the 2018 World Cup will be the one played in the Otkrytiye Arena Spartak in Moscow, when Colombia will face an always contender for the title of the competition such as England.
Colombia:
Those led by the Argentine coach Jose Pekerman has come to this instance with much suffering, and that is that the national team started the World Cup campaign with a tough 2-1 loss to Japan that put Colombia in check, since on the agenda they had secured the three points against the Asians, this defeat against Japan led Pekerman to accelerate the recovery of James Rodriguez that made sense to the 2018 World Cup in Russia and so before Poland what was shown inside the field was very good, as they won It goes over with a 3-0 score and an excellent performance by the Bayern Munich player of Germany; but before Senegal the technical team had no other option than to continue supporting James and in the end this led to him getting injured and everything indicates that he will not be against England.
But, when the worst was thought before Senegal, the individualities appeared and after a corner shot appeared the power of Yerry Mina to put the final 1-0 that put Colombia in the round of 16 and achieved it as the winner of the group.
As we have said above, the main absence of Colombia for this game will be that of James Rodríguez, so the whole game will fall back on what Quinteros can do in the midfield.
England:
Meanwhile, those led by Gareth Southgate did not have much trouble to ensure their presence in the round of 16 at the 2018 World Cup, it is true that in the debut they had to wait until the last minute to beat Tunisia, but then against Panama. They took the pressure and won with a convincing 6-1 that allowed him to secure a place in this stage of the tournament.
Already for the game against Belgium the technical command of the Three Lions gave rest to their main references in order to get complete to this game against the coffee growers and this allowed to lower the effectiveness in the attack, especially with the departure of their striker Harry Kane and therefore it was defeated by the minimum difference and with it it finished in the second place of its group.
For the game against Colombia, the technical team does not have major absences and more can already have the return of Harry Kane who is currently the scorer of the 2018 World Cup Russia and company, and with it break a streak of two consecutive worlds without being able to reach quarters of final.
Possible alignments:
Colombia: Ospina; Arias, Mina, Sánchez, Mojica; Uribe, Sánchez, Cuadrado, Quintero, Murel; Falcao.
England: Pickford; Walker, Stones, Maguire; Henderson, Trippier, Lingard, Alli, Young; Sterling, Kane.
PREDICTION: Over 1.5 goals @ 1.53
