The selection of Uruguay This Thursday sealed the pass to 2026 World After winning 3-0 Peruthat with that result was eliminated from the contest. Rodrigo Aguirre, Giorgian de Arracaeta and Federico Viñas marked for Celeste, which will represent South America with Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Paraguay. To them could be added another (Venezuela or Bolivia) through the play.
Uruguay wanted the day to be a party, nobody wanted to miss it and the streets of the capital were a sample of it. Thousands of people were arriving early at the Centennial Stadium, a scenario that those two selections inaugurated in a meeting framed in the 1930 World Cup. Music, lights and pyrotechnics were part of a show in which Celeste celebrated having put a gold brooch to a work that began on September 8, 2023 with a victory against Chile.
The 2026 World Cup flight was a possibility and those of Marcelo Bielsa soon boarded it and fasten their belts to turn it into a reality. Marcos López went down Facundo Pellistri and very early he saw the yellow card. That play was a sample of what Uruguay intended to do for the bands and could execute.
Brian Rodríguez for the left sector and the Panathinaikos attacker by the right quickly became figures. And there Guillermo Varela focused greatly for Aguirre to leave Pedro Gallese without options with a powerful head blow that at 14 minutes became 1-0.
Uruguay did not stop and generated several clear options in a few minutes, the two main ones through the Drawing midfielder. On the end of the first part, Peru advanced in the field and approached the goal defended by Sergio Rochet, who about 40 minutes rejected a good shot from outside Yosimar Yotún.
The 1-0 with which the first part ended gave way to a show of the multiplemlated Uruguayan singer Jorge Drexler and then to a second half in which the place approached three times clearly before three minutes. Peru responded and in a play that involved its two sides was very close to matching it. Luis Advincula attended and López was able to score with a header that went up for little.
Uruguay went to the front again and sentenced the game. Varela focused from the right, Aguirre lost it to him and razcaeta no longer forgave. The Brazilian Flamengo player captured the ball inside the area and with an impressive powerful shot put the 2-0 at 58 minutes of time run.
Technical file
3 – Uruguay: Sergio Rochet; Guillermo Varela, Sebastián Cáceres, Mathías Olivera, Joaquín Piquerez; Federico Valverde, Rodrigo Bentancur, Giorgian de Arrascaeta (m.69, Manuel Ugarte); Facundo Pellistri (m.76, Rodrigo Zalazar), Rodrigo Aguirre (m.74, Federico Viñas) and Brian Rodríguez.
Coacher: Marcelo Bielsa.
0 – Peru: Pedro Gallese; Luis Advíncula, Renzo Garcés, Luis Abram, Marcos López; Erick Noriega (m.87, Jesus Pretell), Christofer Gónzales (m.46, Joao Grimaldo), Yoshimar Yotún (m.65, Jairo Concha); Kevin Quevedo, Kenji Cabrera (m.46, Sergio Peña) and Luis Ramos.
Coacator: Óscar Ibáñez.
Goals: 1-0: Rodrigo Aguirre (m. 14); 2-0, Giorgian de Arrascaeta (m. 58); 3-0, Federico Viñas (m. 80)
Referee: Argentine Facundo Tello. He admonished Marcos López, Kevin Quevedo and Rodrigo Bentancur.
Incidents: Meeting corresponding to the penultimate date of the South American Qualifiers of the 2026 World Cup, played at the Centennial Stadium in Montevideo.
After the goal, the match lowered his revolutions, although there was still time for more. At 80 minutes, just six after jumping to the field from the bench, Oviedo’s attacker Federico Viñas took advantage of a good assistance from Rodríguez and with a left leg shot turned the victory into a win.
Uruguay won playing one of his best matches in the Qualifiers and classified his fifth consecutive World Cup, after having said present in South Africa, Brazil 2014, Russia 2018 and Qatar 2022. In the next day, La Celeste will visit on Tuesday, September 9, the already eliminated Chile, while Peru will receive Paraguay.
