The World Cup will miss Radamel Falcao but Colombia have started just fine without him. Confident, composed and always in control against an ineffective Greece side, José Pékerman’s insistence that they will go on without their talismanic striker was vindicated convincingly in Belo Horizonte. Dark horses indeed.
Colombia had lost three of their four opening fixtures at the World Cup finals but an opening victory in Group C was not in doubt from the moment the former West Ham defender Pablo Armero scuffed them into a fifth-minute lead. Teófilo Gutiérrez
