Paraguay and Peru tighten in on tip five

• Wins for Paraguay and Peru pierce them into row
• Argentina and Uruguay cancel any other out
• Brazil make certain of tip mark in a table

THE DAY REPLAYED. Paraguay’s warn win in Chile and Peru’s home better of Bolivia grabbed a headlines on Matchday 15 of a South American qualifiers for a 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™, and helped them to put vigour on a teams immediately above them in a table.

Though both sides are still out of a approach gift places and a play-off berth, they have sealed right adult on Colombia, Uruguay, Chile and Argentina, while also leapfrogging Ecuador.

With only 3 rounds of games remaining, a small 5 points apart a Colombians in second and a Ecuadorians in eighth as a conflict for a remaining 3 and a half subordinate slots heats up.

High above a quarrel are Brazil, who have now ensured that they will finish tip of a list for a third time in a final 4 subordinate competitions.

Matchday 15 results
31 August
Venezuela 0-0 Colombia
Chile 0-3 Paraguay
Uruguay 0-0 Argentina
Brazil 2-0 Ecuador
Peru 2-1 Bolivia

Match of a day
Chile 0-3 Paraguay 
Arturo Vidal 24 og, Victor Caceres 55, Richard Ortiz 90

Francisco Arce’s side hardly put a feet wrong in Santiago, display excellent concentration during a behind and a slicing corner adult front to record a win that boosts both their points total and morale. “It’s a large step and we’re right behind in a quarrel now,” pronounced their manager Francisco Arce, who won in Chile as a actor in 2003, in a qualifiers for Germany 2006.

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Elsewhere
Though Colombia would be entitled to feel they forsaken dual points in San Cristobal, it incited out to be not such a bad day during a bureau for them. The visitors combined copiousness of opportunities, all of them capably dealt with by Vinotinto screw Wuilker Farinez, one of a 3 newly crowned FIFA U-20 World Cup champions handed a start by Rafael Dudamel. Venezuela combined opportunities of their own, however, with Cafetero screw David Ospina doing his bit to safeguard honours remained even.

Despite a participation of Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani and one side and Lionel Messi, Paulo Dybala and Mauro Icardi on a other, Uruguay and Argentina could not conjure adult a idea between them during a packaged Estadio Centenario. The visitors, in Jorge Sampaoli initial central compare in charge, did many of a attacking, yet both sides were pretty calm with a draw.

Peru were done to persperate as they picked adult a changed 3 points opposite Bolivia. Forced to work tough to open adult a two-goal lead, achieved interjection to glorious strikes by Edison Flores and Christian Cueva, they afterwards had to quarrel to strengthen a slim advantage after Gilbert Alvarez pulled one back. The hard-fought win has given a Peruvians a genuine possibility of qualifying.

Ecuador continued their bad run in Porto Alegre, pang a third true better that saw them trip from sixth to eighth in a table. Gustavo Quinteros’ side hold organisation for 70 mins though could not redeem from Paulinho’s opener. A excellent Coutinho idea afterwards cumulative a points for a Brazilians.

Player of a day
Edison Flores (Peru)

Peru’s chances of creation it to Russia were vanishing quick when Flores conjured adult a absolute left-footed expostulate to set them on march for a critical win. The 23-year-old midfielder has been instrumental in their resurgence, carrying scored in 4 of their final 6 subordinate matches.

Did we know?
Having begun his Brazil reign with a subordinate win over Ecuador in Quito on 1 Sep 2016, Tite finished his initial year in assign with another feat over a Ecuadorians. The manager has a ideal record of 9 wins out of 9 so far. Those 27 points would have been adequate to take his side to a tip of a subordinate table, even but a 9 they collected underneath his prototype Dunga.

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The stat
6 - the series of times Argentina have unsuccessful to measure in this subordinate campaign, in 15 matches, their misfortune record given a Germany 2006 preliminaries, when they went goalless in 5 of their 18 games.

What they said
“We need to be a lot some-more assertive in a final third of a pitch, control possession and get some-more people into a box. We need to find space. We’ve got belligerent to make adult in a list and that’s unequivocally putting us on edge. You have to remember that a qualifiers are infrequently harder than a World Cup itself.” 
Argentina manager Jorge Sampaoli

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