Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Chile and Colombia, for all or nothing in the qualifiers for Qatar 2022

Copywriting Deportes, 21 Mar The teams of Ecuador, Uruguay, Peru, Chile and Colombia will define between this Thursday and Tuesday, March 29, their entry to the 2022 World Cup in Qatar in the last two dates of the South American qualifiers. The fight between these five teams will be for two direct quotas and another for the repechage against Asia. Why don't we count Bolivia that ranks eighth with 15 points? La Verde, although not mathematically eliminated, has little real chance of going to Qatar. In addition, Paraguay with 13 points and Venezuela with 10, are the finalists and officially eliminated. ECUADOR, ONE POINT AWAY FROM ACHIEVING HIS PASS TO QATAR Ecuador, which ranks third with 25 points, expects to confirm its ranking in the same position or fourth place in the last two rounds. A victory against Paraguay as a visitor or against Argentina as a home and those led by Gustavo Alfaro will reach one of the two remaining direct spots in dispute, discounting those that Brazilians and Argentines won early. La Tri met this Sunday in Asunción to prepare for the match with Paraguay for the penultimate date of the South American qualifiers with 28 players called up by Alfaro. URUGUAY REVIVED The Uruguayan national team, which experienced its most difficult moments in these qualifiers until the departure of Oscar Washington Tabarez, revived with an important series of good results with the help of its new coach Diego Alonso. La Celeste is fourth with 22 whole players, one more than Peru by Argentinian Ricardo Gareca and three more than Chile, their next rival, so if Alonso's win at home and La Roja does not win in Brazil, Uruguay will get their direct ticket to Qatar. Therefore, the Uruguayans focused on the duel against Peru this Monday, since if Alonso's win at home and Chile does not win in Brazil, Celeste will get its direct ticket to Qatar. Alavés striker Facundo Pellistri described the clash against Peru on the 24th as “key”, although he added that “all games are always very important”. PERU, FOR THE SECOND CONSECUTIVE WORLD CUP La Blanquirroja has 21 points and ranks fifth. He will meet Uruguayans on a visit and receive Paraguay; and his bet is to take fourth place from Celeste or at least retain the fifth place it occupies today and that would give him the way to the repechage. Ricardo Gareca's 29-player call is led by Italian-Peruvian striker Gianluca Lapadula in the absence of Jefferson Farfan and Paolo Guerrero, who have not yet recovered from the injuries they have been dragging since last year. CHILE SEEKS TO STRIKE A BLOW La Roja has experienced a round full of ups and downs but with 19 points, two points behind the fifth, Peru, is playing on these two dates its chance to access the World Cup Repechage. The problem of those led by Martín Lasarte is the rivals they will face. The already qualified Brazil will receive it this Thursday in Rio de Janeiro and on Tuesday it will be Uruguay, a direct rival, that will visit the National Stadium in Santiago de Chile. His first rival, Canarinha, has already secured his ticket to Qatar, is the leader of the South American qualifiers with 39 points and has an almost perfect balance of twelve wins and three draws. COLOMBIA, BY A MIRACLE Colombia has the last chance to access the repesca. And although those led by Reinaldo Rueda are in seventh place, with 17 points, they are counting on being able to beat Bolivia in Barranquilla and Venezuela on a visit, to add 23 units that, accompanied by poor results for Peru and Chile, would bring him closer to Qatar. A miracle that Colombia hopes will happen without Radamel Falcao García. The South American team that occupies fifth place in the qualifiers will have to face, in a single-match playoff next June, with the team that finished fifth in Asia. - Matches of the seventeenth day: 24.03 Brazil v Chile 24.03 Colombia - Bolivia 24.03 Paraguay - Ecuador 24.03 Uruguay - Peru 25.03 Argentina v Venezuela - Matches of the eighteenth day: 29.03 Bolivia - Brazil 29.03 Chile - Uruguay 29.03 Ecuador - Argentina 29.03 Peru - Paraguay 29.03 Venezuela - Colombia. Carlos Andres Valverde