The World Preliminary Round continents are about to usher in the final battle, the European region has opened a play-off mode, the Asian top 12 has ushered in the last two rounds, and the South American top 10 is also the remaining two rounds. The competition in the South American region is the most fierce, they do not have as many promotion places in Europe, only 4-1 places, but the south American region is a strong team, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru, Chile, Colombia have played the state of the world's strongest teams in recent years, and the world ranking is also very high.
This year's South American top ten competition, the situation is very complicated, dark horses and cold goals are very obvious, Brazil and Argentina two teams in advance to qualify for the World Cup, Uruguay was squeezed to the fourth place, not only did not qualify in advance, there is a risk of exit, only 22 points, Peru 21 points ranked fifth, Chile ranked sixth with 19 points, Colombia ranked seventh with 17 points, these strong teams have reached the top thirty in the world ranking, and now they are facing the situation of not qualifying for the World Cup, which is a big surprise, they all seem to have a squad replacement problem, Well-known stars Such as Suarez, Cavani, Sanchez, J Ronaldo and others are old.
The standings show that Ecuador, ranked 44th in the world, has become the biggest dark horse in the South American region of this World Preliminary Tournament, the team has played a very fierce state, all the way, and recently tied Brazil, surpassing 6 champions in South America with 25 points, Uruguay, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay behind Ecuador have won at least one Copa America championship, Ecuador as a team that has never won the Copa America, the lineup configuration is also mediocre, the whole team "German turn" Worth only 87.5 million euros, it can counterattack the third place in the standings and rush the World Cup with full gold content.
Statistics, Ecuador from the South American region of the top ten first round of 0-1 loss to Argentina, until the recent 1-1 consecutive 1-1 draw with Brazil, Peru, harvested 7 wins, 4 draws and 5 losses, of which the offensive end performance is quite unexpected, 16 rounds of the top ten scored 25 goals, more fierce than Argentina, is the second most goals in the tournament, second only to Brazil's 32 goals, Argentina only scored 23 goals, but Brazil and Argentina are one less game in Ecuador.
In the final two rounds of the World Preliminary Round, Ecuador will face Paraguay on March 25 and Argentina on March 30. Ecuador has participated in the World Cup three times before, in 2002, 2006 and 2014, the best result was to enter the World Cup round of 16, which occurred in the 2006 World Cup in Germany, and the other two World Cups were played in the group stage and then eliminated. According to the current points situation and the matching situation, Ecuador's fourth World Cup trip is stable, the last two rounds will have no pressure to qualify, 25 points are very safe, Uruguay with 22 points in the fourth place and Peru with 21 points in the fifth place have to have a direct dialogue, and it is destined to be impossible to exceed 25 points.