Pressing the exit of Chile will be the key for Ecuador to control the match in Santiago for the qualifying rounds for the Qatar 2022 World Cup

Ecuador’s technical and medical teams are working on the recovery of the team after the 1-0 victory over Venezuela, and on perfecting the high pressure formula on the rival to visit Chile this Tuesday for the fourteenth date of the qualifying rounds of the Qatar World Cup 2022.

There were several players who exhausted their energies against Venezuela, at the altitude of 2,850 meters above sea level where Quito is located, which is no longer an ally of the Andean team, so they work with extreme care for their urgent Recovery.

Meanwhile, the local coach, Argentine Gustavo Alfaro, hopes that they will return to the optimum level so that, together with those who completed a suspension match, strengthen the visitor’s high pressure formula, which earned him four points, three against Bolivia, in La Paz, and one in front of Colombia, in Barranquilla.

That same pressure greatly complicated Argentina and Uruguay against whom they lost, in a tight way, 1-0 and 2-0 against Brazil, who could remain calm in the last action of the match with a penalty, which in the orderly repetition Neymar specified by the referee to ensure victory.

So Alfaro will sustain the same pressure with his attackers on the defense of Chile and will also defend with great pressure from his defense, as he did on October 14 in the tie (0-0) against Colombia.

Against Vinotinto he suffered four casualties due to the suspensions of defenders Pervis Estupiñán, Diego Palacios, attackers Ángel Mena and Michael Estrada, for which he resorted to three new elements from his extensive list of proven players, some with good results and others that they originated the criticism for his calls.

Against Venezuela debuted the defender Christian Cruz, the midfielder Jeremy Sarmiento and the attacker Djorkaeff Reasco.

So against Chile, the level and functioning of the Ecuadorian team will return to its usual state with the reappearance of Pervis Estupiñán for Cruz, Ángel Mena for Sarmiento and one of the scorers of the qualifying rounds, with five goals, Michael Estrada, in place of Reasco.

The doubt within the selection was whether one of its figures, the attacker Gonzalo Plata, was suspended for a double yellow card, but FIFA and Conmebol cleared the concern, so Ecuador will have all its figures, with the exception of the injured Enner Valencia, historic scorer for La Tri, with 33 goals.

The team continues to prepare in the impregnable complex of Quito called La Casa de la Selección, from where information is obtained only through the press department of the Ecuadorian Football Federation (FEF), which confirmed to Efe that “the team will travel next Monday afternoon ”. (D)