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Conmebol WCQ 2026 ends with heartbreak, as Venezuela screws up
spectacularly at home while Bolivia earns a brave, though meager home
win that was good enough to send them to the intercontinental playoffs.
Conmebol WCQ 2026 ends with heartbreak, as Venezuela screws up
spectacularly at home while Bolivia earns a brave, though meager home
win that was good enough to send them to the intercontinental
playoffs. Bolivia gets closer to return to the World Cup after 32
years, though I think it's unlikely for them to survive the playoffs
(for one thing, they'll be on neutral territory, though of course
it'll depend on wthe draw). Venezuela, yet again, are out.
As for the other teams, not much to say: Chile indeed finishes last,
Ecuador takes over 2nd place and Brasil ends with its worst ever
qualifying run since the double round-robin system was adopted.
Ecuador 1-0 Argentina
A penalty kick goal by Enner Valencia, 12 minutes deep into first
half injury time, separated the two teams at Estadio Monumental de
Guayaquil. Not much else of note, other than a red card apiece (for
Otamendi, for a last man foul, and Mois|-s Caicedo, second yellow).
Ecuador rounds off a solid qualifying effort on a good note,
finishing second despite the three point penalty.
Peru 0-1 Paraguay
Paraguay finds their first and only away win on this cycle at Est|idio Monumental de Lima, against the hapless Peruvians. A nice goal by
ex-Vasco player Mat|!as Galarza settled the win for the visitors, on
the 77th minute.
Venezuela 3-6 Colombia
A shower of goals and a grand style collapse that spelled heartbreak
for the Vinotinto, at Est|idio Monumental de Matur|!n. And it all
seemed to start so well! Telasco Segovia scored the first goal of the
round, in the 2nd minute. Yerry Mina drew level on the 9th, but Josef Mart|!nez quickly put Venezuela ahead again two minutes later.
Then the floodgates opened. Four goals by Luis Su|irez (41', 49', 58'
and 66') seemed to put the match way beyond Venezuela's reach.
Salom||n Rond||n replied at the 75th, and Venezuela immediately missed
a mano-a-mano in the following play that could have made it 4-5.
Instead, on the 77th, Jhon C||rdoba finished them off. On final
whistle Venezuela still hanged on, as Bolivia vs Brasil wasn't over
yet and one goal by the exhausted Brazilians would send them through.
But it never came, and yet again Venezuela misses out the World Cup
finals.
Bolivia 1-0 Brasil
Bolivia does its homework at Estadio Municipal de El Alto and beats
Brasil for the first time since 2009, and way to pick a clutch time
to do that, as that guarantees them Conmebol's intercontinental
playoff spot. The first half was almost entirely Bolivia's, with
Brasil showing early they wouldn't have legs for this one, though the
goal came from a penalty kick converted by Miguel Terceros, some
three minutes inside first half injury time.
Brazilian TV made a meal out of the altitude (I almost wondered if
that was news to them?), but over the second half Brasil looked a lot
closer to score the equalizer than Bolivia to finishing the game off.
That meant a bit of a tense endgame as Colombian goals piled up in
Matur|!n, since a single goal by Brasil would eliminate Bolivia and
send Venezuela through. But it didn't come, and Bolivians wildly
celebrated final whistle and a playoff spot that puts them the
closest to the World Cup they've been in 32 years.
Chile 0-0 Uruguay
Dead rubber match at Est|idio Nacional de Santiago. Both sides created
a number of chances, not many of these on target, though.
So, there we have it. Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Uruguay, Brasil
and Paraguay qualified to the World Cup. Bolivia are the second team
to qualify to the intercontinental playoffs, after New Caledonia,
where they are to be joined by one team from CAF, one from AFC and
two from Concacaf.
And here's the final table, plus the home and away breakdown.
Table [points, games, w-d-l, gs-gc, gd, (mi = media inglese)]
1 Argentina 38 18 12 2 4 31-10 21+ (mi = +2)
2 Ecuador 29 18 8 8 2 14-5 9+ (mi = -4) (-3 points
penalty) 3 Colombia 28 18 7 7 4 28-18 10+ (mi = -8)
4 Uruguay 28 18 7 7 4 22-12 10+ (mi = -8)
5 Brasil 28 18 8 4 6 24-17 7+ (mi = -8)
6 Paraguay 28 18 7 7 4 14-10 4+ (mi = -8) ----------------------------- --------------------
7 Bolivia 20 18 6 2 10 17-35 18- (mi =-16) ----------------------------- --------------------
8 Venezuela 18 18 4 6 8 18-28 10- (mi =-18)
9 Peru 12 18 2 6 10 6-21 15- (mi =-24)
10 Chile 11 18 2 5 11 9-27 18- (mi =-25)
Home Table [points, games, w-d-l, gs-gc, gd, (mi = media inglese)]
1 Argentina 22 9 7 1 1 20-4 16+ (mi = -5)
2 Ecuador 21 9 6 3 0 11-2 9+ (mi = -6)
3 Brasil 20 9 6 2 1 18-5 13+ (mi = -7)
4 Uruguay 20 9 6 2 1 16-4 12+ (mi = -7)
5 Paraguay 20 9 6 2 1 9-3 6+ (mi = -7)
6 Colombia 18 9 5 3 1 16-7 9+ (mi = -9)
7 Venezuela 16 9 4 4 1 12-8 4+ (mi =-11)
8 Bolivia 17 9 5 2 2 13-7 6+ (mi =-10)
9 Chile 10 9 2 4 3 8-7 1+ (mi =-17)
10 Peru 10 9 2 4 3 6-7 1- (mi =-17)
Away Table [points, games, w-d-l, gs-gc, gd, (mi = media inglese)]
1 Argentina 16 9 5 1 3 11-6 5+ (mi = +7)
2 Ecuador 11 9 2 5 2 3-3 0 (mi = +2)
3 Colombia 10 9 2 4 3 12-11 1+ (mi = +1)
4 Uruguay 8 9 1 5 3 6-8 2- (mi = -1)
5 Paraguay 8 9 1 5 3 5-7 2- (mi = -1)
6 Brasil 8 9 2 2 5 6-12 6- (mi = -1)
7 Bolivia 3 9 1 0 8 4-28 24- (mi = -6)
8 Venezuela 2 9 0 2 7 6-20 14- (mi = -7)
9 Peru 2 9 0 2 7 0-14 14- (mi = -7)
10 Chile 1 9 0 1 8 1-20 19- (mi = -8)
Best regards,
Ll|-o