Colombia into final as Uruguay players confront fans

Colombia beat Uruguay 1-0 in their Copa América semi-progress forward on Thursday paying little notification to being diminished to 10 men before half-time in a game that completed titanic scenes as players entered the social event to face fans.

Jefferson Lerma’s header booked Colombia’s title decider against the defending champions Argentina.

Uruguay’s Darwin Núñez destroyed a few prospects in the essential half and Colombia made them pay in the 39th second when Lerma rose above the security to head James Rodríguez’s corner past goalkeeper Sergio Rochet.
Colombia went down to 10 men not extraordinary before half-time when Daniel Muñoz went crazy and got himself transported off, with the right-back getting a resulting yellow card for elbowing Manuel Ugarte in the chest.
Uruguay overpowered possession in the last part and Luis Suárez, on as a substitute, nearly changed when he hit the post. Regardless, Colombia strikingly held tight for an exceptional achievement and will play Argentina in Sunday’s convincing.

“Until you rout your deficiencies you can’t make,” Colombia tutor Nester Lorenzo said after the game. “Besides, when you beat those blocks you can make.”

Uruguay will play Canada ordinarily earlier in the third-place season finisher. Close to the satisfaction of the game Núñez and around twelve of his adornments went into the stands as fans battle. A video showed Núñez hitting a fan in Colombian social event tones.

José María Giménez conveyed people from the Uruguay players’ families were undermined by fans.

“Award me to convey something before they cut you off considering the way that they will not permit us to talk into the mouthpiece, they don’t thoroughly recognize that I ought to give anything about what’s going on in any event is a disaster,” Giménez said on the power broadcast.
“Sympathetically be careful, our families are in the stands, there are immaterial kids. It was a disaster; there was no police and we expected to shield our families. This is the deficiency of a few parties who had a couple a very number of remunerations and don’t have even the remotest snippet of data on how to drink.”

Conmebol said it is looking at the episode.

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