The Ecuadorans are bidding to qualify for their second World Cup finals in a row after reaching the 2014 tournament in Brazil, where they were eliminated in the first round.
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Brazil, who have a win and a draw from their three matches, will be quietly satisfied with Friday’s result ahead of Tuesday’s home clash with Peru in Salvador. Mario Rondon and Richard Blanco scored for Venezuela, which has lost its first three qualifying matches.
“I’m not sure if you noticed but it didn’t seem like an Argentina stadium”.
The small Comoros Islands and kingdom of Swaziland enjoyed a rare outing in the World Cup spotlightFriday by holding two of African soccer’s established powers to goalless draws in the first leg of their second round qualifying ties.
Looking at the contests that were played, Ecuador grabbed sole possession of top spot with a 2-1 win over Uruguay.
“It wouldn’t just be hard to play good football, there is hail and lightning and the forecast is that it will get worse”.
Argentina and Brazil have both made indifferent starts to their qualifying campaigns.
The Napoli striker immediately played a low central pass into the area to the incoming Lavezzi to side-foot past Alisson.
Manchester City’s Sergio Agüero and Carlos Tevez also joined the best player of the world in the injury list. I saw Neymar, and we know what a great class of player he is. It is like speaking about Kun [Sergio Aguero], Pipa [Gonzalo Higuain] or Leo [Messi]. “They were effective tonight and we weren’t”.
Argentina’s inability to turn pressure into goals in their 1-1 draw with Brazil means they must win next week’s World Cup qualifier away in Colombia, coach Gerardo Martino said.
Brazil barely managed a shot in the first half, with a David Luiz header which went wide four minutes before the break their best chance.
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Brazil have never missed a World Cup, and Argentina last missed out in 1970.
