For date 2 of the CONMEBOL Qualifiers heading to the 2026 World Cup in Mexico, the United States and Canada, on Tuesday, September 12, the five corresponding matches were played, with a win by Argentina at the height of La Paz, an agonizing victory of Brazil in Peru and a triumph for Ecuador over Uruguay, among other matches.
In this way, the first double day of this competition was closed, which will grant six tickets to the next World Cup, and one more chance for the South Americans to go to the World Cup because the seventh placed team will play a Repechage against a team from another continent.
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Argentina and Brazil, as expected, are the two leaders of the Qualifiers heading to 2026 with an ideal score: the current world champion beat Ecuador at home and Bolivia as a visitor, while the Brazilians thrashed Bolivia as hosts, and won on the difficult terrain of Peru on the hour mark.
If we go to the scoring table, there are four protagonists who lead in this area, with two goals each: they are Neymar Junior and Rodrygoboth from Brazil who achieved a double each against the Bolivians, Nicolas de la Cruz, who did the same against Chile, while Felix Torres He joined the select list after scoring two goals for Ecuador against Uruguay, in the recent victory on matchday 2.
POSITION |
PLAYER |
GOALS |
---|---|---|
1 |
FELIX TORRES (ECUADOR) |
2 |
2 |
NICOLAS DE LA CRUZ (URUGUAY) |
2 |
3 |
NEYMAR (BRAZIL) |
2 |
4 |
RODRYGO (BRAZIL) |
2 |
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