On the morning of March 25, Beijing time, the penultimate round of the World Preliminary Round south American region began, there was a picture of two teams winning and losing the same joy, Uruguay won, defeated peru, the fourth direct competitor at home, thus passing through the World Cup with 25 points; Ecuador lost this round, losing 1-3 to Paraguay on the road, ending the last 5 rounds of unbeaten world cups, but still received good news, with 25 points in advance of the Round of the World Cup.
The match that decided to advance Uruguay and Ecuador in the early round was the match between Colombia and Chile, Chile scored 19 points after 16 rounds, and this round directly talked to Colombia with 17 points, and finally Colombia won 3-0, thus giving Chile a chance to compete for four and missing the world cup in the early round. According to the rules, the top four of the Top 10 in south America directly advanced to the fifth place in the World Cup main tournament to participate in the intercontinental play-offs. Now, the top four teams in the South American region are locked in Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador, Uruguay, and the fifth place is still in great suspense.
Peru was provisionally ranked 5th with 21 points after 17 rounds, Colombia was 6th with 20 points, Chile was provisionally ranked 7th with 19 points, three teams competed for fifth place, and the bottom three teams were out early, paraguay with 16 points, Bolivia with 15 points, and Venezuela with 10 points. According to the situation in the last round of the matchup, the three teams competing for the fifth did not have a direct dialogue, Peru took the initiative to qualify, the last round against Paraguay, Colombia against Venezuela, Chile against Uruguay.
Multiple teams are fighting for fifth place, and the Competition in South America in the World Preliminaries is as brutal as in Europe. In the south American region, ecuador has become the biggest dark horse in this world preliminary round, their performance is directly after Brazil, although the round of 1-3 loss, but they have scored 25 goals in the first 16 rounds of this world preliminary round, is the second most goals scored in this world preliminary round, second only to Brazil's 36 goals, Argentina only 23 goals, Uruguay only 20 goals after 17 rounds.
The most valuable thing is that Ecuador has won 7 wins, 4 draws and 6 losses in the case of the American champions, advanced to the World Cup with 25 points in the early round, occupied the third place in the standings for a long time, and pressed 6 American champions, and the 6 strong teams that were suppressed were Uruguay, Peru, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay, and Bolivia, these 6 teams have won the Copa America championship, the background and lineup configuration are not bad, and it is rare to encounter collective failure.
Ecuador not only has not been involved in the Copa America championship, the lineup configuration is still very mediocre, the team is worth only 87.5 million euros, which is still the recent kick out of the value, before the start of the top ten, Ecuador is the biggest fish belly, the whole team is only worth about 30 million euros, the world ranking was once ranked 60th in the world, with the performance of 7 wins in the top ten soared all the way to the world's 44th. However, Ecuador has a dark horse background in the South American region of the World Preliminary Round, and they have qualified for the World Cup three times before, in 2002, 2006 and 2014, and the best result of the World Cup was the round of 16 in 2006.