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Argentina gained height in La Paz (3,600 masl)
with a valuable victory against Bolivia 2-1 this Tuesday in the second day of the South American qualifier for Qatar-2022, while Brazil, without shining, left Lima with their hands full by defeating Peru 4-2 with a hat trick of Neymar.
Argentina and Brazil now lead the South American Qualifiers
with perfect score after two games played.
Arturo Vidal, to use his tricks on the court to greet his ‘panitas’ from Colombia
While, Uruguay failed at the 2,850 m altitude of Quito
against an intractable Ecuador that beat him 4-2.
The Tiger’ Radamel Falcao García rescued a draw over the bell
2-2 for Colombia against Chile in Santiago, when La Roja was getting ready to celebrate.
In this date, Paraguay did a round business on his visit to Mérida
with a valuable 1-0 win over Venezuela that gives the Guarani a huge boost after drawing 2-2 with Peru in Asunción in their debut.
Argentina, with height
With a Lionel Messi assuming his role as leader after recovering the air in the second stage, the Albiceleste was able to overcome a historical trauma of negative results at altitude and took Buenos Aires a golden triumph, which leaves it with a perfect record of six points in the World Cup.
“We were a team that dominated and knew what it was playing at. We have completed the process of the match, which was to endure the attacks of the first minutes, “explained Scaloni at a press conference.
And to Messi
in particular the triumph had the flavor of revenge.
The six-time Ballon d’Or, 33, was this Tuesday the only survivor of a humiliating defeat that Argentina suffered 6-1 in La Paz in 2009 with Diego Maradona on the bench, in the World Cup in South Africa-2010, the largest that Argentina received in the history of the qualifiers.
But the albiceleste captain carries an even heavier load on his backa: four lost finals (Copa América 2007, 2015 and 2016 and World Cup-2014) and the extension to 27 years of a streak of Argentina without achieving titles.
Neymar’s gift to Tite
In Tite’s 50th game at the helm of the seleçao, Neymar sealed a tripleta (two of penal)
to turn around a game that was being very difficult for his team after being twice down on the scoreboard.
With the triplet, The PSG star was ranked as Brazil’s second historic scorer, with 64 points, two more than Ronaldo, and behind Pelé (77).
“We have built this victory. Playing against Peru is always a great difficulty and that is demonstrated in history by the qualities of the team, “said Tite.
Did not measure up
Unlike its neighbor in the Río de la Plata, Uruguay failed in its adventure in the heights with a conclusive 4-2 in Quito against Ecuador.
The team of the middle of the world took off the bitter taste from their narrow defeat in Buenos Aires against Argentina at the start of qualifying.
After the pale start on the first day, the Ecuadorian team, led by the Argentine Gustavo Alfaro
, did not give options to the celestial with an uncontrollable youthful Gonzalo Plata, who led his team to a golden triumph.
The ‘old Tiger’ appeared
Chile threatened this Tuesday with a comeback
After the golden years 2015 and 2016, when he achieved two America Cups from the hand of the two greatest exponents of the ‘golden generation’, Alexis Sánchez and Arturo Vidal, authors this Tuesday of the goals of the Red, who sought to become strong in home after their 2-1 loss to Uruguay in Montevideo.
“The selection must click in every way”, Alexis Sánchez claimed after the game.
Until the experienced ‘Tigre’ Radamel Falcao appeared in extremis
and it punctured the hope of the Chileans, who only present one point in two dates of the tie.
The emergence of Falcao saved the coffee selection of discreet performance and with a fading James Rodriguez.
Sour wine
While, Venezuela continues without improving and fell 1-0 to the combative Paraguay
to run out of points at the bottom of the standings alongside Bolivia.
To top it off, the Paraguayan goalkeeper Antony Silva held a penalty against Yangel Herrera on the edge of the meeting and the Vinotinto again left empty-handed.
The South American Qualifiers awards four direct tickets to Qatar-2022 and on the fifth the possibility of playing a playoff game against a team from another continent.
Queiroz dedicated the start of the Qualifiers to players who “lost like Ospina, Díaz, Uribe …”
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