ORA sin of youth left Jhon Jáder Durán off the Colombian payroll for the now painful visit to El Alto, where they deservedly lost 1-0 against Bolivia and also undefeated in the qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup in North America.
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An inopportune yellow card in the game against Argentina stopped the Aston Villa forward’s upward career in the yellow shirt, when he was already shaping up to fight for the title: it accumulated and he had to pay a suspension date. And that forced the technician Nestor Lorenzo to look for alternatives to play at 4,150 meters above sea level, on Thursday.
Neither of the two options that Lorenzo chose gave him results. He played it, first, for Roger Martinez, who returned to the National Team after ten months and made his debut in the current qualifying round. The Racing attacker generated an expulsion that, in theory, was going to help Colombia, that of Héctor Cuéllar. But it cost him dearly, he was injured and could not continue on the field.
After the loss of Martínez, Lorenzo returned to a known option and brought onto the field John Cordoba, but the Krasnodar striker could not adapt to the height and ended up being singled out for his lack of aim: he missed four very clear options to score and, to top it all off, an error due to lack of concentration allowed Miguel Terceros to score the goal with which Bolivia made its fans celebrate and Colombia’s coaching staff reflect.
Jhon Durán returns and excites the Colombian National Team
Now, Durán’s freshness gives him the first option to start this Tuesday, at the beginning of the second round of the qualifiers, in the game against Chile, which is last in the table and was increasingly further away from a zone of direct classification in which six teams already have an advantage.
Durán arrives at a sweet moment with Aston Villa, who fully trust him, even if he is not a starter at the moment and has to line up behind Ollie Watkins. But in England they know that they have a diamond in their hands and that is why the club renewed his contract until 2030.
Durán has been responding with a flurry of goals, almost always coming from the bench. In the Premier League, with only 184 minutes in seven games, he has already scored four goals, and one of them – against Everton – was selected as the best goal of the month of September in that tournament.
To that we must add another goal in the League Cup, in his only game as a starter this season, in the victory against Wycombe Wanderers, and another, and perhaps the most important, the one he did 10 days ago against Bayern Munich for a historic victory for the club in the Champions League.
Lorenzo has had him on the radar since he arrived and gave him his debut against Guatemala two years ago. He has been taking it little by little. It seems to be his time to shine.
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