The focus points to Vinicius and Coutinho

Without Neymar, who ran again yesterday more than two months after the injury he sustained to his left ankle in a league duel against Saint-Ettener, and with Brazil already qualified for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the focus of tonight’s match (10:00 p.m.) against Ecuador points to the madridista Vinicius, who will want to transfer the state of grace that he is living to the orders of Carlo Ancelotti to the ‘Canarinha’, with whom he has not yet released his scoring locker in nine games.

Coutinho and Alves return

Also news will be the return of Philippe Coutinho, currently loaned to the Aston-Villa english for him FC Barcelona, 470 days after his last meeting with the four-time world champion, a Peru 2-4 Brazil who decided Neymar with a hat trick. Both aim to be part of the game in a line of three midfielders that will complete raphinha. Another who has returned to the ‘verdeamarelha’ at 38 years of age is the azulgrana Daniel Alves, who in principle will be a substitute for EmersonRoyal.

For its part, Ecuador arrives at the duel in third place in the South American qualifiers with a six-point advantage over Colombia Y Peru and with morale through the roof after having chained three games without defeat, drawing (0-0) in Colombia and defeating the teams of Venezuela (1-0) and chili (0-2), who had never won in Santiago.

Two ‘Spaniards’ in Ecuador

the selector Gustavo Alfaro It has a block of young people in which the ‘Spanish’ stand out Pervis Estupinan (Villarreal) and Gonzalo Silver (Valladolid), in addition to the central Bayer Leverkusen, Piero Hincapie, only 20 years old.

Estupiñán made it 0-1 against Chile

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Likely lineups:

Ecuador: Dominguez; Preciado, Félix Torres, Hincapié, Estupiñán; Gruezo, Alan Franco, Moises Caicedo, Gonzalo Plata; Enner Valencia and Michael Estrada

Brazil: Allison; Emerson, Militao, Thiago Silva, Alex Sandro; Casemiro, Fred; Raphinha, Coutinho; Vinicius Jr. and Cunha
Referee: Wilmar Roldan (Colombia)