The Chilean team will live a key day this Thursday at the Maracana in the race to get to Qatar 2022. La Roja will play its seventh knockout match in brazilwhere he could never even achieve a draw in the previous six, with a poor harvest of 17 goals against and only two for.
A poor record that puts the red square as the worst among the nine South American teams that must face Brazil in qualifying. It is true that Ecuador also has 6 defeats in as many matchesbut the cast of Guayas It has a goal difference of -13, against the -15 of the team led by Martín Lasarte today.
In fact, the only two goals for La Roja in Brazil were scored by Humberto Suazo, who managed to partially tie 2-2 in Marcelo Bielsa’s team’s visit to Salvador de Bahía, on September 9, 2009, before that Nilmar sealed the 4-2 local victory.
A sad performance that is even surpassed by the two most modest teams in South American history. In 1985, the Canarinha had one of the most complete squads in the world with players like Zico, Sócrates, Toninho Cerezo or Careca himself. However, in the qualifying round for Mexico ’86, Bolivia stole a 1-1 draw at the Morumbí, in one of the great milestones in that country’s football history.
On September 10, 2008 It is another important day for highland football, since that day the team led by Erwin Sánchez, the same one who scored the tie in Sao Paulo’s 1-1, achieved a goalless equality at the Engenhao stadium in Rio de Janeiro.
Just over a year later, On October 14, 2009, the Venezuelan cast under the command of César Farías took a hard-fought parity without goals from the Campo Grande University Stadium. Two of the most important moles of the criticized Dunga at the helm of his national team.
Brazil has played 60 home games for the qualifications to World Cup. In them register 48 wins and a dozen draws. Of those equalities, a quarter of them are in the register of the light blue: 1-1 in 2000, 3-3 in 2003 and the most recent was 2-2 in 2016.
In addition to Bolivia, Paraguay and Colombia can also say that they have left the country of samba unscathed a couple of times. Argentina and Peru also emerged unscathed at least once during their visit to the largest country in the region.
| Country | PJ | PG | ON | PP | GF | GC | Dif. | make, |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uruguay | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | -6 | 16,6% |
| Colombia | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 16 | -13 | 9,5% |
| Argentina | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -7 | 8,3% |
| Bolivia | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 28 | -25 | 8,3% |
| Paraguay | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 22 | -17 | 7,4% |
| Peru | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 11 | -10 | 5,5% |
| Venezuela | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 31 | -30 | 3,7% |
| Ecuador | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 15 | -13 | 0% |
| Chile | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 17 | -15 | 0% |
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