In a matter of hours, the route to the Qatar World Cup 2022 It begins to settle down and add confirmed names for the appointment that will be played between the end of November and next December. This Thursday, very early, Japan and Saudi Arabia entered the payroll, both for the Asian key. At night, two more squares were defined by the South American qualifier: those selected from Ecuador and Uruguay They joined Brazil and Argentina, who already had the ticket in their pocket, and thus the four places for direct entry have already been signed, in the absence of a date.
Ecuador, the team led by Gustavo Alfaro, qualified despite the resounding 3-1 loss suffered against Paraguay in Asunción, helped in this case by Peru’s defeat in Montevideo. Despite being eliminated, Guillermo Barros Schelotto’s team made the most of their opportunities and celebrated with goals from Robert Morales, Piero Hincapié (against) and Miguel Almirón.
Uruguay agreed to the World Cup by winning the match in which they had all the obligations. It reached him with a 1-0 win over Ricardo Gareca’s Peru with a goal from Giorgian de Arrascaeta; At the end, a controversy arose over a ball that Sergio Rochet, the Uruguayan goalkeeper, saved inside the goal, although in principle the ball did not enter completely. La Celeste, now directed by Diego Alonso, reaches a World Cup for the fourteenth time.
Thus, for South America, only the fifth place remains to be defined, which will enable the playoff match against the third in the Asian tie (today it would be defined between Australia and the United Arab Emirates). For that fifth place, Peru, Colombia and, to a lesser extent, Chile have chances.
Brazil, already classified several dates ago, crushed Chile 4-0, which reaches the closing with the rope around its neck: it will have to beat Uruguay, and also it does not depend on itself, since it must wait for two defeats from Peru and Colombia to be able to reach fifth place. Peru is the only one of the three that depends on itself: with a victory against Paraguay, it will play the playoff. A tie will force you to hope that neither Colombia nor Chile will win.
Finally, Colombia extended their chances with a comfortable 3-0 at the expense of Bolivia, with goals from Luis Díaz, Miguel Borja and Uribe. The coffee team, to enter fifth, needs to beat Venezuela at the end of the tie, and hope for a tie or defeat for Peru against Paraguay, and in case of equalizing, that Chile does not beat Uruguay.
Chile? It is the one with the most complex scenario: it must beat Uruguay and it also needs Peru to lose to Paraguay, and Colombia not to beat Venezuela.