Host Qatar national team became the first to qualify for the 2022 FIFA World Cup on Friday, after suffering a second successive defeat, this time to Senegal 1-3, and the Netherlands and Ecuador drawing 1-1 in Group competition TO.
After the result of the Netherlands and Ecuador, the two teams brought their score to 4 points in two games, against 3 for Senegal and nothing for Qatar, which means that the latter is officially out of the match field by one of the two cards.
Qatar will play the third and final round against the Dutch national team next Tuesday, while Ecuador and Senegal will meet on the same day.
Both the Dutch and Ecuadorian teams need a draw in the last round to reach the final price. As for Senegal, they must beat Ecuador or draw parallel to the defeat of the Netherlands, and the overall goal difference is in favor of the African champions.
And at the Khalifa Stadium, Cody Khakpo opened the scoring for the Netherlands for the second consecutive game, after a ball that Ecuador couldn’t handle, reaching Claassen and from there to the Eindhoven striker, so he penetrated in the penalty area and hit the net with his left foot (6).
It is the first goal scored by Ecuador after that of the Argentine Julian Alvares last March, in the context of a series of 7 games in various competitions (3 wins and 4 draws).
Dutch goalkeeper Andres Nobert blocked Enier Valencia’s shot (32), while defender Pervis Estupinian thought he had equalized for Ecuador with a shot that hit the net, but the referee raised the offside flag over his counterpart, Jackson Boroso, for blocking the path of goalkeeper Nobert’s ball (45+3).
With the start of the second half, Valencia imposed their third goal in the World Cup at the top of the scorers and sixth in a row after their participation in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil (3), the equalizer after following a shot from Stobinian who was blocked by the goalkeeper Nobert and returned to the Turkish forward Fenerbahçe, who deposited on goal (49).
The Ecuadorian Goncalo Plata (59′) blocked the crossbar, before receiving a moral blow by injuring his top scorer, Valencia, and leaving the stadium crying on a stretcher (90′).
It is the sides’ third meeting, the Netherlands winning 1-0 in March 2006 and drawing 1-1 in May 2014.
The mourning “mills” continued his run of good results in the World Cup finals, as he tasted defeat only twice in his last 15 matches against the South American continent (W8 against 5 draw).
In turn, Ecuador have failed to defeat European teams only twice (against Croatia 2002 and Poland 2006) in 8 matches in the World Cup, against two draws and 4 defeats.
