Colombia 1-0 Paraguay: Gustavo Cuellar makes it three wins from three as Colombia ease into the next round of the Copa America Colombia beat Paraguay in the Copa America, easily progressing to the quarters Gustavo Cuellar opened the scoring after 31 minutes to give Colombia the lead Colombia thought they had a second, but Luis Diaz handled it in the build up By Richard Martin, Reuters Published: 21:55 BST, 23 June 2019 | Updated: 22:14 BST, 23 June 2019 Viewcomments Colombia made it three wins from three after beating Paraguay in the Copa America at the Arena Fonte Nova in Brazil on Sunday night. Colombia enjoyed a 1-0 win over Paraguay despite fielding a second-string side to make it a clean sweep of victories in their Copa America group stage campaign, leaving Paraguay's hopes of staying in the tournament hanging by a thread. Colombia were guaranteed a place in the last eight as Group B winners and made 10 changes from the side that beat Qatar in their last outing but still dominated play while Paraguay, who had to win to ensure they progressed, barely caused any danger. Colombia's Gustavo Cuellar scores their first goal of the match against Paraguay on Sunday Gustavo Cuellar celebrates with his team-mates as his goal takes them 1-0 up against Paraguay Luis Diaz thought he had added a second, but it was ruled out for handball after a VAR check MATCH FACTS Colombia (4-3-3): Montero; Arias, Zapata, Lucumi, Borja; Lerma, Cuellar, Cardona (Barrios 85); Cuadrado (Rodriguez 58), Falcao (Zapata 66), Diaz Subs not used: Medina, Tesillo, Vargas, Mina, Uribe, Martinez, Sanchez Goals: Cuellar 31 Yellows: Lucumi, Borja Paraguay (4-4-1-1): Fernandez; Arzamendia, Alonso, Gomez, Piris; M. Rojas (Dominguez 46), R. Rojas (Iturbe 63), Sanchez, Gonzalez (Romero 82); Almiron, Cardozo Subs not used: Silva, Escobar, Balbuena, Valdez, Santander, Torres, Ortiz, Perez, Aguilar Yellows: Arzamendia Midfielder Gustavo Cuellar put Colombia ahead just after the half-hour mark, sliding the ball through the legs of Paraguay goalkeeper Roberto Fernandez, while Luis Diaz struck in the second half but the goal was ruled out by VAR. The technology was used again in stoppage time to over-rule a penalty that had been awarded to Colombia. Carlos Quieroz's Colombia side finished top of the group with nine points, while Argentina came second with four and also progressed to the quarter-finals after beating Qatar 2-0. Paraguay are third on two, with Qatar last with one. Paraguay must hope Monday's game between Japan and Ecuador ends in a draw as victory for either side would send them out. Colombia followed up their 2-0 win over Argentina last weekend and the 1-0 victory over Qatar on Wednesday with another solid win on Sunday night. They finished the group stage with three clean sheets, only allowing Paraguay two shots on target in the match. Brazil and Venezuela are through to the next round as well, and now we must wait for Japan to face Ecuador to find out who the best two third placed teams will be going through to the quarter-finals. Colombia striker Radamel Falcao attempts an acrobatic shot as the ball comes through the air Colombia forwards Juan Cuadrado and Radamel Falcao celebrate their team's first goal Radamel Falcao was desperate to get on the score sheet, attempting shots from all over Referee Victor Hugo Carrillo shows a yellow card to Christian Borja during the match A close up of the VAR replay clearly showed that the ball rolled along Luis Diaz's arm The referee was forced to disallow Luis Diaz's goal because he handled it in the build-up Share or comment on this article: All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility