Brazil may not be able to go directly to the World Cup, South America s top three can advance early, weak teams are disrupting

The qualifiers for the South American region of the World Cup will soon start the 16th round, which is also the third round of the last. The three teams have the opportunity to qualify for the World Cup in advance. Traditional weak teams have begun to disrupt the situation, and the dispute over direct quota has become more intense. As strong as Brazil, they have to start "calculating points", and it may even be impossible to directly reach the World Cup.

Many fans think that the South American region, which has only 10 teams, has 6 places to directly advance to the World Cup, and 1 place to intercontinental play-off. At most, 7 teams appear in the World Cup, which should be the happiest continent in the world.

However, South America has always adopted the traditional competition system, with 10 teams performing home and away double cycles, and a total of 18 games are required. The first game kicked off two years ago. Judging from the time span, the competition system that just exceeded two years is quite long for all teams.

South American teams are the only continent that can challenge the European powerhouses. A total of 8 countries have won the World Cup championship, 5 from Europe and 3 from South America, with a total of 22 competitions. The three top three in South America won 10 of them, which is only 2 fewer than the five European teams. Therefore, from the perspective of time and strength, the qualifiers in South America are not as relaxed as people imagine.

The latest standings have shown this. Argentina is far ahead of the 15 games with 34 points, has long been qualified for the World Cup, and is also the only one in South America to advance. In the subsequent Ecuador, 3 points were deducted for illegal use of players, and together with Paraguay, they earned 24 points. Five-star Brazil ranked fourth with only 22 points, Uruguay and Colombia were both 1 point behind, and Venezuela ranked seventh with 18 points.

Except for Argentina, from second to seventh place, there are opportunities to get a direct place to the World Cup. Bolivia, ranked eighth, is lagging behind, and only has a glimmer of hope to win the Intercontinental Playoff. The overall situation is relatively clear.

Before the last round, the top six teams were a lot ahead and seemed to be able to lock in 6 direct places. However, a few days ago, Venezuela continued to score all three points, and many top teams including Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia, etc. were unable to win, bringing more suspense again.

Venezuela is a traditional underdog in South America, the only one among the 10 teams who have not participated in the World Cup. Even in the Copa America, Venezuela often can only stop in the group stage, ranking fourth 14 years ago, which is the best result. Therefore, Venezuela began to disrupt the situation. After two consecutive victories, the team at the forefront of points suddenly felt pressure, and the story became quite interesting.

At present, only three teams have the opportunity to advance to the World Cup early this week. Ecuador and Paraguay have the same conditions for promotion. If you win and Venezuela will not win, or if you draw and Venezuela will lose. Brazil also has the opportunity to achieve its goal by winning by itself and meeting Venezuela’s defeat.

Of course, some possibilities cannot be ruled out. Brazil was unable to win against Ecuador in the last round, which made Ancelotti's debut seem a bit awkward. He ate 8 pieces of chewing gum in the whole game and became the focus of interesting things. If Brazil loses to Paraguay in this round and Venezuela continues to win, Brazil will only have one more point than the playoff score line, and the situation that goes straight to the World Cup will become quite serious.

Paraguay once defeated Brazil with a small goal last year and ranked higher than Brazil's points. Such a story is not unlikely to appear. Paraguay is a solid but not flashy team. Almiron, who left Newcastle half a year ago, may be a familiar attacker. It is not easy to be at the top of the standings.

Ancelotti became Brazil's first foreign head coach, his chances of getting a World Cup ticket within a week are still quite good, and his chances of falling into the play-offs are not too high. Obviously, Brazil has a good time to change coaches. It takes a full year to make Ancelotti familiar with the team. Next year's World Cup will be the real stage for Brazil to show itself.

has rejected Messi twice and won the Copa America championship for two consecutive years. Chile, which once made Spain eliminate the group stage one round ahead of schedule, decline is regrettable. The age gap is an important reason for the lack of contact with the young and yellow. Look at the 36-year-old Sanchez and 38-year-old Vidal, two European stars, who started together a few days ago. Half of the starting lineup is over 30 years old. Chile is deeply troubled by aging and it is not difficult to understand that it has been firmly at the end of the qualifiers.