Beijing time this morning, the penultimate round of the South American World Preliminary Round 4 matches, of which the more critical two games resulted in Uruguay 1-0 Peru at home, Brazil home 4-0 victory over Chile, so Uruguay with Ecuador with 25 points, to advance to the Qatar World Cup, south American top 4 teams also settled, namely Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay.
Today's away game against Brazil is a life-and-death battle for Chile, and losing means that it is difficult to enter the World Cup. Brazil is more serious about this game (afraid that Argentina will catch up?). ), sent an all-work squad led by Neymar. Neymar also lived up to expectations, creating and personally taking the penalty at the end of the first half, breaking the deadlock on the field. So far, Neymar has scored 14 goals in the World Preliminary Round, breaking his own record for Brazilian players in the World Preliminary Round.
Relatively speaking, Uruguay and Peru are more evenly matched, this match is a direct dialogue between South America's 4th and 5th places, and it is decisive for the situation in South America. As a result, in the 42nd minute of the first half, Uruguay's shot was blocked by the goal frame, and de Arrasketa scored the only goal of the game. The goal was also the most valuable one of the day, directly announcing Ecuador and Uruguay.
This morning, although Ecuador lost 3-1 to Paraguay, it still won the World Cup ticket with 25 points in the early round. Paraguay had already announced that it would not qualify for the World Cup long before this match, but Paraguay still played a momentum at home and beat Ecuador.
Ecuador's early qualifying also made argentina's last round away to Ecuador a friendly match. Of course, there is no friendship in the South American arena, some are just real knives and guns, so as to defend the football honor of South America and the country. Today Colombia beat Bolivia 3-0 at home, and the points rose to 20 points, thus retaining a glimmer of hope of finishing 5th in South America.
At present, Peru has 21 points, Colombia has 20 points, Chile has 19 points, and the last round will be the three teams competing for 0.5 places. Peru has a relatively high chance of winning. At that time, the South American arena will still be filled with smoke.
In the final round, as long as Peru beat Paraguay at home, it will secure the 5th place in South America. If Peru doesn't win, Colombia and Chile will have a chance. Coincidentally, in the last South American World Preliminary Tournament, Peru was the 5th place in South America, and finally eliminated New Zealand in the intercontinental play-offs and advanced to the World Cup in Russia.