Selection for the 2022 World Cup. South America. Brazil flies, Argentina crawls, tiger jumps

World Cup 2022. Classification. South America. Second round

Bolivia 1-2 Argentina

Peace. “Hernando Siles Stadium”. Referee – Diego Haro (Peru)
Goals: Marcelo Morneau (24) – Lautaro Martínez (45 + 1), Correa (79)
Argentina: Armani – Montiel, Quarta, Otamendi, Taliafico – De Paul (Dominges 68), Paredes (Rodriges 68), Palacios – Messi, Martinez (Medina 89), Ocampos (Correa 59)

“Playing in La Paz is simply not human in relation to the people,” the famous Argentine Passarella once said. It seems that he does not consider Bolivians for people. But playing at extreme heights is really very difficult. The Ecuadorians and Peruvians from the heights, having risen above the clouds, play well with Bolivia. Others are more difficult, even victories then “regurgitate” the players for a long time. For Argentina, the problem is that Messi really does not like to go to this rival: 71 goals with the national team, but not a single guest in Bolivia.

Bolivia’s mentor, César Farias, was decided by FIFA itself. He could be suspended from soccer on accusations of discriminating against two players. The coach said that he would take them to the national team only if they break relations with Fabol, this is one of the options for the country’s soccer union, whose legitimacy is questioned by another organization, and the Federation is ignoring it.

The first half of the match unfolded with a tangible advantage from the hosts. They attacked and the goal of our old friend Marcelo Moreno became more logical. But the guests scored in a situation where the player knocked out the ball and hit the opponent, the rebound turned into a productive action.

Marcelo Moreno

In the second half, Argentina came to life and simply outplayed the opponent. The decisive combination occurred with the participation of Messi, Martínez and Joaquín Correa, the latter bringing victory to Albi-Celeste. VIDEO >>

Ecuador – Uruguay 4: 2

Quito. “Rodrigo Pas Delgado Stadium – The White House”. Referee – Wilmar Roldan (Colombia)
Goals: Ángel Israel Mena (14), Michael Steveen Estrada (45 + 3, 52), Gonzalo Plata (75) – Luis Suárez (83, 90 + 5, both from penalties)
Uruguay: Campania – Caceras, Araujo, Godin, Viña – Nandez (De La Cruz 46), Valverde (Arambarri 87), Bentancourt (Torreira 77), Rodriguez (Nunez 46) – Luis Suarez, M. Gomez (H. Rodriguez 63)

Nine goals in the match, three of which were canceled for offside, one of them to Luis Suárez, who did not allow him to deliver a hat-trick, but even he would not change the result of the match. This time Ecuador, surprisingly, had a powerful game. In its composition, I will highlight the 19-year-old Moisés Caicedo, who did not score goals, but made his debut very well in the National Team.

Venezuela – Paraguay 0: 1

Merida “Municipal Stadium – El Colloso where Zumba”. Referee – Julio Buskunyan (Chile)
Objective: Gaston Jimenez (85)

Paraguay won honestly, although the rival played well. Berizzo is still very weak in composition, except in defense, the team forced to move actively and impose its will on the rival.

Peru 2-4 Brazil

Lime. National Stadium. Referee – Wilmar Roldan (Colombia)
Goals: André Carrijo (5), Renato Tapia (59) – Neymar (28, 83, 90 + 4, the first two from the penalty spot), Richarlison (64)
Elimination: Carlos Caseda (83), Carlos Zambrano (89) – both from Peru
Brazil: Weverton – Danilo, Marquinhos (Cayo 12), Silva, Lodi (Telles 70) – Coutinho (Everton 70), Casemiro, Luis – Richardson, Firmino (Ribeiro 70), Neymar

The Peruvians had many problems. Alex Valera and Raúl Ruidias passed positive covid tests before the game, a little earlier a similar fate happened to their partners Christian Ramos and Aldair Rodríguez. The owners had to use the homeless club Farfán as a base.

The game itself turned out to be very “dirty”. Everyone decided the striker: Richarlison scored twice (one was not counted) and Neymar three times, he himself won both penalties. Thus, the PSG striker has surpassed Ronaldo Phenomena in the scorers’ list and is now 13 goals behind Pelé alone.

For Tite, this was the 50th game at the helm of the “celesao”. The statistics are as follows: 36 wins, 10 draws and 4 losses. Goals: 109-19.

Chile – Colombia 2: 2

Lime. “Julio Martinez Pradanos National Stadium – Nyuñoa”. Referee – Dario Herrera (Argentina)
Goals: Arturo Vidal (37, penalty), Alexis Sánchez (41) – Jefferson Lerme (60), Radamel Falcao (90 + 1)

For 1229 days the Chilean team did not play in the country’s main arena. The previous fight was friendly, then on June 2, 2017, Burkina Faso was defeated, 3: 0.

“We are not going to cry over the spilled milk. We have to close all the questions,” said host coach Reinaldo Rueda on the eve of the match. He hinted at the scandalous refereeing of the previous match against Uruguay.

I didn’t have to cry or be happy. An equal match, which ended with balance, but the goal of Radamel “El Tigre” Falcao already passed in the referee’s added time.

Tournament position. Qualification for the World Cup in South America