The teams of Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Chile and Colombia will define between this Thursday and Tuesday, March 29, their pass to the Qatar 2022 World Cup in the last two dates of the South American qualifiers. The fight between these five teams will be for two direct quotas and one more for the playoff against Asia.
Why don’t we count Bolivia, which is in eighth place with 15 points? La Verde, although not mathematically eliminated, has few real chances of going to Qatar. Also, Paraguay with 13 points and Venezuela with 10, are the bottom and officially eliminated.
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Ecuador and Uruguay could secure quota on Thursday
Ecuador, which is in third place with 25 points, hopes to confirm its classification in the same position or in fourth place in the last two dates. A victory against Paraguay as a visitor or against Argentina as a local and those led by Gustavo Alfaro will reach one of the two direct quotas that remain in dispute, Discounting those that Brazilians and Argentines obtained in advance.
The Uruguayan team, which experienced its most difficult moments in these qualifiers until the departure of Óscar Washington Tabarez, revived with an important string of good results under the guidance of its new coach Diego Alonso. La Celeste is fourth with 22 points, one more than Argentina’s Ricardo Gareca’s Peru and three more than Chile, its next rival, so if Alonso’s team wins at home and La Roja does not win in Brazil, Uruguay will get its direct ticket abide.
Peru, after visiting Uruguay, will receive Paraguay; and his bet is to take fourth place from Celeste or at least keep the fifth place he occupies today and that would give him the step to the playoffs.
Chile has experienced a tie full of ups and downs but with 19 points, two behind Peru, their chance of accessing the World Cup playoffs is at stake on these two dates.
The problem of those led by Martín Lasarte are the rivals they will face. The already classified Brazil will receive it this Thursday in Rio de Janeiro and on Tuesday it will be
Uruguay, -direct rival-, who visits the National Stadium of Santiago de Chile.
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His first rival, the Canarinha, already has his ticket to Qatar assured, he is the leader of the South American qualifiers with 39 points and has an almost perfect balance of twelve wins and three draws.
The accounts of Colombia to qualify for the World Cup
The last chance to access the playoffs is Colombia. And although those led by Reinaldo Rueda are in seventh place, with 17 points, they make accounts of being able to beat Bolivia in Barranquilla and Venezuela on a visit, to add 23 units that, accompanied by two bad results for Peru and Chile, would bring it closer abide. A miracle that Colombia hopes will happen without Radamel Falcao García.
The South American team that occupies the fifth place in the qualifiers will have to face, in a single match playoff next June, with the team that has finished fifth in Asia.
This is how the elimination table goes
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