Uruguay and Ecuador joined Brazil and Argentina as teams with direct qualifications from South America for the 2022 World Cup, which will be held in Qatar.
In the early hours of Friday morning, in Montevideo, Uruguay conceded and beat Peru, 1-0, and took advantage of Chile’s heavy defeat in Brazil (0-4) to secure a ticket to Qatar. With Darwin Nunez, Benfica striker, in the starting lineup (Cotes and Ugarte were unused substitutes), Diego Alonso’s team took advantage of De Arrascaeta’s goal, in the 42nd minute, to score the three precious points: Darwin’s cross, Jimenez Hadid, and in the reload, he shot The Flamengo midfielder is in the back of the net. At 66′, Darwin left, to be replaced by Edinson Cavani.
Colombia still dreams of qualifying for fifth place, which gives access to the “play-off” against an Asian team. Porto midfielder Matheus Uribe started off the bench (entered in the 74th minute), but it was even a former Dragons player who unleashed the void in the game against Bolivia: near the end of the first half, Luis Diaz is now starring in the Liverpool scored a goal to give the advantage to cafes. At the beginning of the second half, Miguel Borja doubled the lead of Colombia, and Mateos Uribe scored in the 90th minute the fifth goal in 40 international matches and closed the score.
In the Maracana, the already qualified Brazilian national team maintained their impressive streak at home in World Cup qualifying matches throughout history (50 wins and 12 draws), taking advantage of two goals in two minutes to win the first half: at 44 minutes, Neymar opened. Scoring against Chile, and a few seconds later, against Vinicius Jr. Make it 2-0. In the 72nd minute, another penalty kick, this time converted by Philippe Coutinho, raised it to 3-0 and the fourth goal was scored by Richalison, already at 90 + 1′.
With the failures of Peru and Chile, the biggest beneficiary was Ecuador. The Ecuadorean team lost 1-3 in Paraguay, but has four points ahead of the fifth-seeded team at the start of the last round, as Peru, Colombia and Chile will determine who will qualify for the play-offs.
consequences:
Brazil – Chile 4-0
Uruguay-Peru, 1-0
Colombia – Bolivia 3-0
Paraguay – Ecuador 3-1
Argentina – Venezuela, today 23:30
Ranking (goal difference is the first break):
1. Brazil 42 points minus one game (+31)
2. Argentina 35 points minus two matches (+16)
3. Ecuador 25 points (+8)
4- Uruguay 25 points (-2).
5- Peru 21 points (-5).
6- Colombia 20 points (0).
7- Chile 19 points (-5).
8- Paraguay 16 points (-12).
9- Bolivia 15 points (-15).
10. Venezuela 10 points, one game less (-16).
Final round (3:30, 00:30 from mainland Portugal):
Venezuela – Colombia
Chile – Uruguay
Peru – Paraguay
Ecuador – Argentina
Bolivia – Brazil
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