The story

Colombia are unbeaten in 81 of their last 99 matches and have been first to score in five of their last six, while Uzbekistan have won four of their five most recent home matches and kept a clean sheet in all their home games across that run. Both sides have avoided early and late goals in the majority of their recent fixtures, and head-to-head meetings have produced under 3.5 goals in 33 of the last 41 encounters. James Rodríguez leads Colombia with an average rating of 7.63 over their last ten matches, with Luis Suárez posting the highest average xG at 0.68, while Jaloliddin Masharipov has been Uzbekistan's standout performer at 7.37.