James Rodriguez’s injury puts his further performances on doubt

Colombia boss Jose Pekerman has stated he is “extremely worried” by James Rodriguez’s injury. The Bayern Munich player failed to start Colombia’s opener against Japan and was forced off just 31 minutes into the match. Rodriguez was replaced by Luis Muriel, which made the team’s manager become extremely worried. And speaking in his press conference after the game, Pekerman said: "What I can say is I'm extremely concerned, it's a very tough situation for my team," said Pekerman. "I didn't want to address this in comments because it seems one of these topics [that] can overshadow everything else. "In the last Poland match James felt fatigue but it was only fatigue and that was due to him not being present in the previous match. "He trained normally for us until yesterday, he stayed on afterwards practicing finishing, free-kicks, penalties. He was fully fit in training and in the last training session there was no hint of any injury but right now I don't know where he stands, to be honest." The Golden Boot winner at the 2014 World Cup.may be on bench when Colombia face England in their last -16 tie in Moscow.

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