In the early morning of January 29, Beijing time, the group stage in the South American region continued, with Venezuela facing Bolivia at home. As a result, after 90 minutes, Venezuela relied on Rondon's hat-trick to win the third game of the World Preliminary Tournament with a 4-1 victory over the opponent. It is worth mentioning that Venezuela has won 6 consecutive games against Poly in the South American qualifiers, continuing to set a new 22-year winning record.
Although it is only the bottom team in the South American region, Venezuela still played its own mental outlook in this game. In the 25th minute of the match, Rondon's header broke the goal to help Venezuela break the deadlock on the field. In the 34th minute, Rondon made a slight adjustment and fired a right-footed shot to score again, helping the team take a 2-0 lead early.
Before half-time, Polly did not give up, Bruno Miranda jumped high to score the header, changing the aggregate score back to 1-2, and the game between the two sides was still in suspense. However, just after returning from the second half, Venezuela has widened its advantage. In the 54th minute, Marches took advantage of a mistake by Goalkeeper Poly to successfully steal and push the empty goal, and the home team once again extended the advantage.
In the 67th minute, Rondon won a one-handed opportunity, he calmly faced the goalkeeper to score the ball, and successfully scored a hat-trick in 42 minutes, becoming the best in the game. Although Venezuela won the match 4-1, they still have only a theoretical possibility left to qualify for the World Cup.
With three games remaining, Venezuela is nine points behind Uruguay, and even if the former wins, the chances of qualifying are very weak. Such a situation is actually the same as the national football team in Asia, even if the full possibility is calculated, it is difficult to find a miracle.
Although there is no hope of qualifying, Rondon's performance in this game has made a name for him again. The 32-year-old Long Dong previously joined the Chinese Super League Dalian, although contributing 14 goals and 8 assists, but the overall cost performance is not high. Including transfer fees and annual salaries, Dalian nearly spent 200 million yuan for Longdong, but the players only made 29 appearances in total, averaging more than 680 million in a game.
In order to follow his mentor Benitez, Rondon returned to the Premier League this season. As a result, in 15 games, he only scored 1 goal and was recognized as an absolute parallel cargo. Now that Benitez has left Everton, Rondon's position in the team is also very awkward. I hope that such a world preliminary match will give him confidence again.