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4. Chile look a disjointed outfit, and Alexis Sanchez embodied it
Is this the team that has ruled South America over the past two years? Today, they looked a pale shadow of their normal selves – hell, their first decent passing move came in the 83rd minute and they only played with any sort of cohesion after the 80th, when the mercurial playmaker Jorge Valdivia was introduced.
Chile’s icon, Alexis Sanchez, embodied his team’s state of mind – he was all huff-and-puff with no discernible end product in the first half and improved considerably in the second half as he added a touch of skill to the huff and puff. He almost got one back for the visitors with a superb free kick that thwacked off the crossbar then sent another (from a near identical position) flying into row Z.
Juan Antonio Pizzi’s side now find themselves in the same plight as Argentina were before this match started – in 6th and out of the qualifying positions. They will need to improve, and drastically so, if they are to have any hope of catching the flight to Russia 2018
