Topic: CONMEBOL 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (South America) - page 11. (Read 2969 times)

Today there are 3 matches going on and I have two of them to be interested in following how the final results are, from what I expected and saw to analyze there is one that does not match expectations.
First is Uruguay vs Paraguay which gives Uruguay an advantage as the host and I think seeing Uruguay far superior with better performance quality than Paraguay can provide an easy victory for Uruguay, but in the end the match was quite fierce with Uruguay dominance but ended in 0 - 0 draw.
Second is Brazil vs Ecuador and the match also showed Brazil advantage, Brazil was able to take advantage of all the advantages to get narrow 1 - 0 victory.
I took Uruguay and Brazil as favorites but unfortunately Uruguay failed to win as I expected.

These qualifiers are the most unpredictable I can remember since 1994 (the first edition I watched)

It's interesting to note that for the 1994 World Cup, also in the United States, Brazil had serious problems and only qualified in the last round, with the help of a combination of results from Bolivia and Ecuador, after that Brazil won the title 

But I think it's great to see other teams playing well, like Colombia and Venezuela, it will be nice to see Venezuela playing the World Cup

Today I placed a bet on Brazil and Uruguay winning, with odds of 1.90

That's right, Chile was unable to put up a fight and they couldn't do much in the match. Simply put, Chile is not a worthy opponent for Argentina, who is the defending champion of the World Cup and Copa America. Chile will most likely not qualify for the 2026 World Cup, because so far they have only managed to win one of their 7 matches. Indeed, their chances are still open, but the competition will be very tight. In addition, Argentina is currently increasingly comfortable at the top of the standings with 18 points.

Next, Argentina will face Colombia, I think this is an interesting and entertaining match, like a repeat of the Copa America final. Colombia will take advantage of the opportunity to take revenge, they are at an advantage because Argentina is not strengthened by Messi, while Di Maria has decided to retire. The match will actually be troublesome for both teams, although on paper Argentina deserves to be favored. The best result that Colombia can possibly achieve is to force Argentina to draw, but Colombia will first face Peru today.

We thought the match between Argentina and Chile would be exciting and interesting but it was not. This match was completely one sided. The match against Chile saw Argentina face an opposition without their key players Lionel Messi and Angel Di Maria. McAllister, Paulo Dybala, Garnacho, Julián Alvarez, Lautaro Martínez, all Argentina team fielded to face Chile with young up-and-comers, yet they performed brilliantly in this match. The highlight of the match was Dybala wearing the number 10 jersey. After Argentina's Messi, we saw another new player wearing the number 10 jersey against Chile and scoring a goal in that match as well. Maybe after the retirement of Messi from the Argentina team, Dybala is going to be the worthy successor of Argentina's number 10 jersey.

Lol
What the hell are you talking about, look at the table, above, did you see it... Come on,  the predictable results! really, this are even more absurd, the volatile on Conmebol does the opposite.

Argentina vs Chile

Argentina vs Chile this match will take place and here we know that Argentina is currently the strongest team. The Argentina team is at the top of the points table, and they lead Argentina with the most points in this World Cup Qualifier CONMEBOL 7. Moreover, Argentina is leading with the maximum points and has qualified for the 2026 World Cup, they will not have to play with so much pressure in the next matches. And since Argentina is facing against Chile, in this case we will definitely see an interesting match here and Argentina are favorites here.

The Brazilian national team has been going through a kind of never-ending crisis that has been going on for a few years now. The possibility of being left out of the next World Cup is real. The coach is bad, the players have no playing style and the team is still being restructured. Only 8 players from the last game are still there. This is a big warning sign to me. If Brazil can't find its feet in time, it will have the biggest fiasco in its history, when it comes to national teams.

The reason why Conmebol qualifiers doesn't get too many attention like the qualifiers from other continental football associations is because of the predictability of the results. When ever these Conmebol countries are facing each other, it's usually easy to predict the outcome of the games and that I think have gone a long way in limiting the excitement that comes with the qualifiers.
That being said, I think there's someone very interesting about this particular this edition of FIFA World Cup qualifiers and that's the fact that Brazil is currently in the sixth position of the qualifying table. Many football fans within and outside the North American continent are eager to see if Brazil can bounce back or will for the first time in the history of the country fail to qualify for the FIFA World Cup.

Ah! Yes, yes, it's true that we have Conmebol, sometimes we forget about these qualifiers 

What a good start to rehash things, showing that classification table, very strange with things like Brazil in sixth place and Venezuela in the top 4 and what to say about Peru in last place...

I think that, although everything seems to have a lot of light to it in several matchs, I don't see it that way... be careful with those bets of @1.5 or less for this Thursday matchday.

My observations for the next rounds
Round 7 - 05 and 06 September
Round 8 - 10 September


Brazil have probably improved and will get the 6 points, giving them some relief and at least 4th place

Venezuela will have a tough game against Uruguay

Colombia will have a very good game against Argentina again, and will have the chance for a rematch, probably a draw

I don't see any of the teams having an easy time getting the 6 points, but in theory Brazil is the one with the easiest opponents (only in theory hehehe)

Welcome back qualifier match for CONMEBOL zone

Brazil national team standings dropped to 6th as the latest standings directly qualify to FIFA World Cup 2026 after having bad performance in last several matches. Next tomorrow day will face Ecuador and securing three points will make them reach to 4th standings place depend Venezuela match result against Bolivia. For CONMEBOL zone have six national teams participants will automatically qualify to World Cup 2026 and the 7th standings place have to play on playoff round against Oceania teams participants.

For this international break out, all national team have two qualifying matches and Brazil will face Ecuador then Paraguay four days later after their first match.
Brazil have bad performance in qualifier matches after losing 3 of 8 matches and 2 winning matches then have one match being draw, the qualifier round still have many 12 matches left and Brazil still get opportunity break out to the top standings position depend on their performance.

After a long time, the qualifiers are back 

Here's the updated table



The 7th round matches will take place tomorrow (06 and 07)

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Do you think anything has changed since this hiatus?
Have any teams become stronger?

I think Ancelotti is very respectful of Real Madrid and doesn't want to lose focus of his work because it will generate a lot of questions, so he should really deny any news for the time being


Maybe you're right
I don't think Brazil's only solution is a foreign coach, because there are good Brazilian coaches who could lead the national team. The lack of definition is even worse because there won't be a proper sequence of work, and the current coach is working in Fluminense and the national team, without total focus
But I think Ancelotti or even another foreigner would be good to deal with the players who mostly play in Europe and would certainly add a lot of experience to the group

And it only seems to get worse, doesn't it? Have to say to take the last game out of the equation somewhat, with the preceding situation and all that. Didn;t watch but reports agree the flank loading and speed just didn't work out -- curious if Ance gets there and if he does, how he might steady that ship.

On the other hand, I'm really excited by Uruguay =) See you guys in... almost a year? Haha

Seeing how Brazil played yesterday, I felt like they are have lost it. They are in somewhat of a mess. But not at crisis levels yet. That style we used to know them for isn’t there anymore. Brazil have also lost that extra flair because a sizable amount of their players have been indoctrinated into the European style. They're not far ahead of everyone talent wise as it was the case before. Also, European teams are tactically better & fitter.

For me, the choice of manager isn't much more serene. The issue of the interim manager has played its part in their current predicament. Dismissing Tito and bringing in a caretaker which hasn’t been doing the right thing. He has now lost three of his six games in charge after this Argentina humbling.
If anyone can provide it then Ancelotti will give it a good go. Otherwise, Brazilian football certainly will be in crisis. If ancheloti takes over, things might be different, maybe there's why they signed him.....to bring the European style to them since all their players have the European style in them.

Agent of Chaos strikes again! Just hope he brings this form to Citeh. Weird to see Brazil sitting in that last spot isn't it? Plenty of time to cement that? Or could they... do the unthinkable and slip out?


Been seeing the same mention twice at least, ESPN for sure brought it up, can't remember where I read it elsewhere. I can't see it at all really, but won't pretend to understand that part of Selecao...

The reason is because of the Copa America 2024, which will be held between June 20 and July 14 (I think the Eurocup will also be held during this period)
The Copa America will be held in the United States


Yesterday was a day for Brazilians to learn two lessons, both from the fight inside the stadium and from the soccer
The CBF made big mistakes in yesterday's game, they should have separated brazilians and argentinians, because they know what a great rivalry there is, it's a shame for brazil

As for the soccer, Brazil played very badly, deserved to lose and there's not much to comment on, it doesn't even look like the Brazil of old times, it's probably the worst qualify of Brazil


I'll try to find the source, but I saw last week that Ancelotti will be the coach of Brazil in Copa America next year, I think it's possible @Slow death

Brazil 0 - 1 Argentina

This game was already predictable that there would be a lot of disagreements between the Argentines and the Brazilians, especially if it had to be held in a scenario where in Argentina the winner of the elections would be the guy who doesn't like the president of Brazil, and that same guy won the elections in Argentina causing relations between these two countries to become dire and this will further influence the way Argentines will look at the Brazilians when these two teams play, the things we saw in that game are very regrettable, and a very reprehensible on the part of anyone who is promoting violence. It seemed to me that the police or the security guards who were at that stadium were exaggerating by attacking the Argentine fans, which is why the Argentine goalkeeper intervened so that they could stop that type of hostile treatment against the Argentine fans and unfortunately were injured in the confrontation



source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz7nICnxIi1/

When we pay attention to this video we can see that the Argentinian fans did not have weapons, they had nothing in their hands that would cause any physical harm to other people, so nothing justifies that action by the Brazilian police, it seems to me that the Brazilian police brazil were driven by feelings of hatred against argentina fans, they forgot that those people were unarmed and that they could solve any problem that those fans caused in another way, this type of photo:



source: https://www.instagram.com/p/Cz7jP1KRzTR/?img_index=1

I had already commented in this thread that both teams would not bring anything new in terms of squad, so the result itself was already expected that Argentina would win, I honestly cannot understand why the hell the bookmakers would be giving Brazil as the favorite, I suspect It was just a fact that Brazil played at home at Maracanã, as historically Brazil had not lost at home in World Cup qualifying games, so this led bookmakers to think that even with Brazil's poor performance, they managed leaving this game with a good result, but at the end of the game the result was Brazil's defeat.

Looking at what happened during the game, in my opinion it was a game in which on the field there was a lot of aggression on the part of the Argentine players against the Brazilian players, it seemed to me that the Argentine players were overcome with anger, probably because they saw the police of Brazil attacking Argentine fans, and the referee played a less strict role when fouls were committed by Argentine players but was severe when fouls were committed by Brazilian players. I saw no reason to give the Brazilian player a red card. Anyway, the game ended with Argentina's victory, it's been a while since I've seen Brazil defeat Argentina

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@rdluffy

Honestly, I highly doubt that Ancelotti will be Brazil's coach when his contract with real madrid ends, he would tarnish his image if he accepts this job. I have this opinion because Brazil's problem is in the maximum direction of football and I highly doubt that Ancelotti will be able to put Brazilian players in the main team instead of calling the same players as always and when he continues bringing the same players as always they will lose and his reputation will be tarnished, I think it would be more prudent for him to only accept the position if he sees major changes in the maximum direction of Brazilian football

About the odds, on stake.com Brazil was at @2.40 while Argentina was at @2.80, it's not a big difference, but Brazil was still seen as the favorite. Ecuador won, while Peru draw, Venezuela is doing well in the last few games, now they have 5 games without losing, if they improved in attack then they could be in a good position in the table

6th round matches are complete and now everyone will forget about the CONMEBOL qualifiers for another 10-12 months. The reason is that 7th round is scheduled for September 2024. There are no matches in between. I don't understand the scheduling of the qualifier tournament. Why there is so much of a gap? This will only result in fans losing their interest in the matches. All the 10 participating nations will be playing on the 7th match day (even the date is not finalized of yet). As of now, three teams - Chile, Bolivia and Peru are at the bottom of the points table. They will be trying to improve their position.

Many Brazilian fans no longer support Neymar in the national team, and as for the coach, there's a good chance that Ancelotti (Real Madrid) will take over for the Copa America.
Maybe the problems you mentioned will be solved with a foreign coach. Not just because he's not Brazilian, but because he has a different way of managing the team, and of course because of his absurd experience in soccer, knowing practically every European player. There's hope for Brazil, but I know it's hard


Welcome my friend, it's not late since this thread will be active until the last game of qualifying 
As I said above, there's hope for brazilian team with Ancelotti, I think there's a lot to do in the team and a different approach can help
Brazilian coaches are not bad, we have awesome ones like Felipão, Luxemburgo, Tite etc, but a foreigner coach can help brazilian team to play against european squads, maybe it's time to change some things, some players and the way of play


Good analysis, I almost agree with everything, I'd just add that in the Brazil vs Argentina game I think the reality is 33% chance of each result hehehe, it's a balanced and unpredictable game

In addition to the games you mentioned, we also have

Ecuador vs Chile
Peru vs Venezuela

I think Ecuador and Peru are favorites in their games