Topic: CONMEBOL 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification (South America) - page 4. (Read 2969 times)

Suarez is also an example, along with Cavani he represented Uruguay very well
He managed to win a Copa America title in 2011 and made good appearances at the World Cup for Uruguay
The only bad thing about Suarez is that I don't like some South Americans' style of play of extreme provocation, the famous “catimba” and sometimes disloyalty


I'm always changing my opinion about Messi hehehe
After the World Cup I was so sure about retirement, but he is still playing at MLS in Miami, and still making some good matches for Argentina, so I have doubts about him

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See you guys next month
The next round will be 14/11 and 15/11, and them 19/11, after that, only in 2025 

I don't think he'll be able to perform as well at the moment. He's in the team more as a stimulus for the others, although he still has a lot more energy than any other player, but he's only active to keep himself in shape for these bigger championships.

Agree.

Suarez most recently probably came as close as it gets to retiring just at the right time, though maybe a bit off in the way he handled the media post farewell.

For the individual it is always about retiring at the top. Now would be a safe time for Messi but I won't begrudge him a bit more time the way he delivers and brings the team together.

But sometimes, you have to think of the ones before your eyes. They need time and space, and your absence to grow. With Messi more so.

I have mixed thoughts about Messi
He's already won the World Cup with Argentina, and if he retires this year or next, he'll end up in his “prime”, with his duty done and will be remembered by everyone

If he continues, I don't know if they'll be able to play at the same level as they did in the 2022 World Cup and there's a chance that Messi, at 39, won't be able to deliver much because of his physique.

However, Messi can still play good games, like the last one against Bolivia, so for me it's a 50% chance of him playing in the next World Cup or not hehehe.
2026 seems so far away, but we're already at the end of 2024 and the World Cup is 19 months away

A lot of matches were played yesterday where Colombia, Brazil and most popular team Argentina were hot choice as well as all of them Won their matches again their opponents. Brazil defeated peru with 4-0 score. Brazil dominated the match, Scored 1 goal in first half and 3 goals in 2nd half where two amazing penalty goals scored by Raphinha and won the match. On the other hand, Colombia defeated Chile with 4-0 score same as Brazil did. A lots of similarity was noticed. Like Colombia also score 1 goal in 1st half and 3 goal in 2nd half and they also dominated the match as like Brazil did, now they gained top two position in qualifying table with 19 points. Apart from that, the most exciting and top team was Argentina, match against Bolivia where Argentina scored 6-0 goal against their opponent team. Argentina did 3 goals before half time and more 3 goals after half time. Where GOAT Messi hat trick with 3 goals at 19', 84', 86' minutes and again proved that why people call him so & crazily love him. Argentina's passing accuracy, domination, strategies all were impressive, they did an incredible performance even and become the topper of the qualifying table with 22 points.

Colombia, Argentina and Brazil all won their games but Uruguay were poor and could not create lead so could only draw.
I don't know why Uruguay couldn't get the win as they were favourites and had plenty of chances to dominate the game but Ecuador goalkeeper Hernan Galindez was absolutely stunning making 4 saves to keep his team clean.
You are right not to have Uruguay as favourites in the bet and taking the draw was good win, unfortunately I lost the bet slip but I was happy with the other teams, Colombia, Argentina and Brazil all won big.

Rafinha has shown that he has the willpower and determination to make his mark on the brazilian national team and establish himself in the main squad. I haven't been following him much, but he seems to be a promising player if he keeps up this level. I hope that Dorival knows how to develop him well. If it's working like this, it's better not to change much about him.

I would be happy to see Messi playing in the next World Cup before he retires, because despite his age, he is still playing at a very high level and is still extremely competitive.

But I think Argentina will be very upset if Messi retires early, but they have exceptional players, so even if that happens, I think they will remain competitive and intimidating. Don't forget that Argentina are three-time World Cup champions.

Even at the age of 37, Messi continues to perform brilliantly. I thought Messi would retire after the World Cup. But he is still playing great. I had already predicted that Argentina would have an easy win against Bolivia. But I didn't think that Argentina would do such a great dominance. From the start of the match we saw only Argentina's dominance. At the end of the first half, Argentina scored three goals. And in the second half they scored three goals. Messi scored a hat trick. Also the performance of Martinez and Alavarez was good in this match.

Messi is still the most important and powerful legendary player for Argentina. We saw his game last night and the performance he put up for the team was really impressive, his brilliant hat-trick which captivated the audience and fans. Of course, it will be a pity that when Messi retires, his fans will miss him a lot and Argentina will not be as strong. I think Argentina team is very strong right now just because of Messi but if he retires the team can collapse a lot, also other players and Messi will not be the same.

Results of today's games:

Brazil 4 - 0 Peru

I'm not trying to discredit Vinicius, but it seems that Brazil is playing very well without him. This team composition for yesterday's game was a very efficient composition. Maybe the coach will use it a lot from now on if he puts Vinicius in and the team plays badly again and loses. It's funny that Real Madrid's players couldn't score a goal. This is starting to show that Brazil needs to get it out of their heads that they should put players from the top teams to play even when those players don't score many goals for the top team.

Argentina 6 - 0 Bolivia

Messi is still an extremely important player for Argentina, I always wonder what it will be like when Messi finally retires

Uruguay 0 - 0 Ecuador

I'm honestly not surprised by this result

Paraguay 2 - 1 Venezuela

Venezuela has declined a lot, I don't know what's happening to them.

I agree with all the bets, but I wouldn't bet on Brazil winning. I would go for another market in the same game, but not on Brazil winning. They haven't convinced yet, and in the last game they were under a lot of pressure to score.
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Wow, finally I won a great bet, and almost got all games right 
I only missed Venezuela vs Paraguay, because Ecuador drew against Uruguay, and Brazil, Argentina and Colombia not only won their matches but won by a great margin of goals, incredible
Colombia made 4 goals, Brazil 4 goals, and Argentina made 6 

Looks like the last round was the back to reality for some teams
Take a look at the updated table:


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Even though the Brazilian team is currently performing well, most football fans are not entirely happy with their performance. Because the two teams they faced were the worst performances in the CONMEBOL 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers so far. Brazil won 2-1 Goals against Chile, perhaps with this match Brazil made a new comeback.

Chile have played a total of ten qualifying matches so far with just one win which shows how badly this team is performing and how weak they are. On the other hand, Peru's situation is the same as they have won only one match out of ten matches. If Brazil thinks that their performance is self sufficient after winning against these two teams then they are wrong, they need to improve so that they can perform well against strong teams. In the upcoming matches, Brazil will face Venezuela, Uruguay, Colombia and Argentina, maybe Brazil will have to face a tough test in those matches.

There is no doubt that Brazil's squad is very strong. There is no dearth of talented players in the squad. Every player in the squad is linked with various big clubs in Europe. And almost every player is able to perform well with the club. Vini, Rafinha and Rodrygo are in excellent form at the moment. The pair of Vini and Rodrygo are able to perform well with Real Madrid. On the other hand, Raphinha has been able to perform well in almost every match with Barcelona.

Although the players play well in club football, their performance with the Brazil squad is very poor. Brazil's condition is mainly due to bad match strategy and bad formation.

Brazil played well against Peru and won. But this group is a very weak group. Brazil coach Dorival Junior kept Raphinha out of the squad for a long time. But against Peru, Raphinha managed to perform well.

In last four games, we are having good improvement even mostly games were against weaker sides, but things are favourable for the Brazil to seal their spot in next world cup 2026 now their next two games are going to be good as well with playing against Paraguay away and Uruguay at home will give them good chance of win and increase their spot into league table.

In this game against Peru we have all well set for the Brazil which started comfortably and have good until end of the game we have good aggressive approach from their attack which helps them for having four goals in this game which is good improvement from their attack they need to keep things on this level for next games as well.

This was not shocking for me as I really enjoyed GOAT doing business and having his best performance back with this game from start he was having good foundation and keep things around him which works, and he was able to score 3 goals with 2 assist give good confidence to him and his team as well with this win now they are having good lead at the top.

Their attack is most active in this group, and they are also had well-balanced defense which is good support for them as we are having performance from the Argentina in these games most chances we will have Argentina could be favourite to go and win another title in next world cup as we are having 48 teams and 3 countries are going to host first biggest every soccer event in North America.

I only found out that Brazil played yesterday because I read the news. They even won, but I saw that it was Peru, the last placed team in the group, so I didn't care. 4-0 was their obligation. And with their past performance, they should have scored more goals. This is not the time to celebrate.

I'm not very excited about the current Brazilian team. Of course, they won their last two games against Chile and Peru, but we mustn't forget that they are the last two teams in the table. Chile has lost 5 consecutive games and Peru is one of the worst teams in South America. The Brazilian team urgently needs a real coach, because there's no point in creating hope by playing with dying opponents.

And it happened according to as you have predicted. Argentina lived up to expectation and they dealt with Bolivia very well. Messi made sure that he never disappoint his people on his return to play in their home soil with a great performance. The truth is Bolivia had no chance of even getting a draw in that match. Messi scored a hat trick and assisted two goals. Bolivia disappointed you 😁😁 but you did well by rooting for them. Argentina won by 6:0 hopefully Bolivia will win their next match for you. The star boy Messi scored in 19, 84 and 86 minutes of the game.

Though there are still many matches left, the overall standing is clearer and the changes in qualifying teams are unlikely to change. Argentina, Colombia, Uruguay and Brazil are safely in. Ecuador is equally a good team and should qualify. It leaves 1 direct spot for WC.
The real competition left is between Paraguay, Bolivia and Venezuela for the direct qualifications spot and the play off spot. One of them would have to end their journey.
Argentina's win against Bolivia was huge but Argentina at the moment is the uncontested leader in South America.

It's really shocking to see Messi destroyed Bolivia, scored hattrick and two assists, almost all the goals created by him. Bolivian already lost their mental when Messi scored the first goal, they should able to fight because they can won against Colombia and Venezuela which are stronger than them.

Uruguay seems not able to going anywhere, unfortunately they lack of players, Nunez is bad, but among all the forwards, he's the best in Uruguay.

Seems Brazil easily will secure three points after leading 4-0 awhile trough penalty kick from Raphinha then one goals scored by Andreas Pereira, then another goals from Luiz Henriquez and remaining 20 minutes left, the victory helped Brazil secure the 4th place position have the same 16 points with Uruguay and left three points reach the second place from Colombia. This month qualifier match Brazil have good performed after winning two consecutives matches from Chile and Peru recently few minutes left match will end.

Brazil have dominance this match by controlling ball possession more than 70% and make 7 shots on target, I don't think problem few minutes left for Peru scoring the goal because the statistic Brazil more dominance the game than Peru. Its good result for Brazil after having bad performed and this month match qualifying success securing six points of two matches. Next month qualifying, Brazil will face Venezuela and Uruguay with opportunity reach the second place position if can secure two consecutives matches.