The likely lineup of Ecuador vs. Brazil for the Qualifiers to Qatar 2022

Ecuador can direct its pass to the Qatar World Cup this Thursday if it defeats the qualifier Brazil at home, but only the next day will it be revealed if it celebrates after playing other decisive matches such as the one between Colombia and Peru.

The Tricolor’s chances of qualifying (third in the pre-world championship) are very high. In the absence of four dates, he is third with 23 points, six more than Colombia, fourth in the table. The first two quotas were obtained by Brazil and Argentina, both without defeats.

South America has four direct tickets to Qatar and the fifth will play a playoff against a team from Asia.

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But of course, Brazil is never an easy nut to crack: they have won 11 games in the tie and the other two were tied 0-0 with Argentina and Colombia.

The five-time world champion, who almost has to finish as leader of the South American tie, must prove himself once again without his star Neymar.

For its part, the Ecuadorian Tricolor would suffer the loss of Ángel Mena, who left with discomfort over the weekend in the match between León and Pachuca. The coaching staff commanded by Gustavo Alfaro added one more name (Aarón Rodríguez) to the list to have more variants on offense and in case Mena does not recover in time.

Likely lineups:

Ecuador: Alexander Dominguez; Ángelo Preciado, Félix Torres, Piero Hincapié, Pervis Estupiñán, Gonzalo Plata, Alan Franco, Carlos Gruezo, Moisés Caicedo, Ayrton Preciado, Enner Valencia.

Brazil: Alisson; Emerson, Éder Militão, Thiago Silva, Alex Sandro, Casemiro, Fred, Coutinho, Vinicius Jr., Matheus Cunha, Raphinha.

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