The day will be similar to the one that took place last October on date five, but with a different location.
A thirteenth date with a revenge flavor will be seen between Thursday and Friday in the South American qualifying matches for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, a day similar to the one that was played last October on date five, but with a different location.
The leader Brazil, with Neymar, Coutinho and Vinicius Junior, will seek his revenge against Colombia in Sao Paulo, the only one that made him puncture by drawing 0-0 on the fifth date in his visit to Barranquilla.
To the coffee team returns after almost a year James Rodríguez, but it will have the losses of Falcao, the centrals Oscar Murillo and Yerry Mina, the side Stefan Medina and the midfielder Matheus Uribe, all injured.
Ecuador will try in Quito to remove the thorn that Venezuela buried him, by beating him 2-1 two dates ago. But it will not be an easy challenge, despite the fact that Vinotinto is at the bottom, well the Tri will not have for suspension the defenders Pervis Estupiñán and Diego Palacios placeholder image, nor to the forwards Ángel Mena and Michael Estrada.
As if that were not enough, the top scorer of this selection, Enner Valencia, author of 33 goals, is injured. While, in the Vinotinto they will not be Yeferson Soteldo and Salomón Rondón.
Paraguay, in the debut of their coach, Argentine Guillermo Barros Schelotto, wants in Asunción to win again after falling to Chile and Bolivia. Precisely his rival will be the Red one that leads him by one point, although both are out of the positions that give places to Qatar.
The classic of the Pacific between Peru and Bolivia will close the programming on Thursday.
La Blanquirroja is urgently looking for a triumph that was elusive in the two previous days after losing to La Verde and Argentina, results that relegated it to the penultimate position. While his rival rose to seventh place after two wins in a row.
Uruguay, still involved in the debate that casts doubt on the permanence of coach Óscar Washington Tabárez, returns to the qualifying rounds wounded in his pride, as he was beaten by Argentina and Brazil in the past dates.
On Friday he will go out with the knife between his teeth to seek revenge in Montevideo against Lionel Messi ‘s Albiceleste in the Río de La Plata classic.
However, La Celeste, in addition to being eager, will have to impose its traditional claw to make up for the loss of so many illustrious names: forwards Edinson Cavani, Maxi Gómez and Darwin Núñez, as well as Federico Valverde, Giorgian De Arrascaeta, Nicolás De la Cruz, Sebastián Coates, Sebastián Cáceres and Matías Viña. (D)
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