Sufrimiento… The Suffering.

What a way to suffer.

I feel exhausted.

The moment it broke to the his feet the sun seemed to shine brighter.

I had nothing left. I let out one Vamos… And then sat with tears until it was over.

The pressure is unbelievably high. I cannot imagine it for the players.

And today, we had everything to lose today, and nothing to gain. I picked Switzerland to be very tough.

Hitzfled. An organised European defence. We don't face this in qualifying. And in friendlies it is not the same.

Plus the current dynamics of world football are favouring a counter attacking game. So any team that has the onus to attack, will usually face 2 solid deep blocks of 4 and 4. If you don't have an aerial threat it becomes increasingly difficult.

If Higuain is not in form, and then you add Palacio to that, both players that are dangerous when making runs into space, then you've made the wrong subs and you need some luck.

In comes Luck, better known as Leichtsteiner.

And we only needed a fraction of it. Ok we needed the post too.

Today was our best game. No doubt.

Sabella made the wrong substitutions though, we needed Alvarez, not Palacio.

In my view, Palacio is like for like with Higuain. We needed another ball player to link with Messi. Or to take a defender away. Palacio and Higuain work in behind defences, which there was no room because they sere sitting too deep.

We also gave away far too many free-kicks. Enough for me to eat both my hands off. The swiss were banking on this, and their delivery was spot on every time.

But aside from that. It was our best match. The Swiss were very good defensively, and if you watched you could clearly see they had quality going forward. But to our credit, they had no chances on the counter that I can remember. None.

So we had all the possession, pushed our fullbacks into the game, created chances, shots on goal, and did not concede any chances in the second half as we pushed, but yet some say we are poor.

It takes two teams to play football. If one sits back, waits and counters, it poses a massive risk if you simply launch numbers forward aimlessly. You play into their hands.

Some say we are too reliant on Messi, yet today the clear best player on the park was Di Maria. Next up, you would have to put the entire back four, in particular Rojo.

Anyway, when you play good and don't win they'll say you need to be more 'effective', and when you win 1-0, they'll say you are poor without understanding the context of the match.

The only thing you can do is mute your TV before, during half time, and especially after, as these guys are experts in hindsight.

What does make me smile though, is the thought of all the Brazilians  that bought tickets to watch us play. They sang 'Ole' to the 3.25 minutes of passes the Swiss had.

And then just as they were getting warm for the penalties, Ole!

Enjoy Brasileros,

Vamos Colombia!