The selection of Paraguay The 2026 World Cup was classified on Thursday after drawing 0-0 with Ecuador In the Asceno Defensores del Chaco stadium, an achievement whose most recent antecedent was 2010 in South Africa. A draw was enough for the squad of Argentine Gustavo Alfaro to complete the 25 points necessary so that the Albirroja, sixth of the classification, returns to a World Cup after the absences of tournaments in Brazil 2014, Russia 2018 and Catar 2022.
Ecuador, under the command of Argentine Sebastián Beccacece, who already came to Asunción, played without pressures. He could only add a point and with 26 descended to third place. Only until the 10th minute, the Tri party unbalanced the Guaraní defense when the striker Enner Valencia entered the attack.
The awakening of the Albirroja was on the end of Ramón Sosa, the most unbalanced of the first half, with two auctions to the arch, but the Ecuadorian goalkeeper Hernán Galindez drowned the cry of the Paraguayan fans. Paraguay grew, pressed with impetus and caused up to three consecutive corner shots that blocked the strong Ecuadorian defense.
In the last part of the first half Paraguay diminished his intensity and Ecuador won prominence although without generating too much danger, with angle that he did not find who to form society to open the score.
Technical file
0 – Paraguay: Roberto Fernández, Omar Alderete, Juan José Cáceres, Junior Alonso, Ramón Sosa (76, Alejandro Romero Gamarra), Diego Gómez, Antonio Sanabria (m.84, Alex Arce), Miguel Almirón, Andrés Cubas, Gustavo Gómez, Ronaldo Martínez (M.60, Matías Galarza).
Coacator: Gustavo Alfaro
0 – Ecuador: 1 Hernán Galíndez; 3 Piero emphapié, 4 Joel Ordóñez, 5 Jordy Alcivar, 6 Willian Pach Alan Minda).
Speaker: Sebastián Beccaces.
Referee: Brazilian Raphael Claus admonished Junior Alonso, Pedro Vite, Andrés Cubas, Miguel Almirón and coach Sebastián Beccacece,
Incidents: Game of the seventeenth and penultimate day of the South American Qualifiers of the 2026 World Cup played at the Defensores del Chaco stadium.
Without changes in the starting eleven in any team, Ecuador took over the ball at the beginning of the second half and raised a leisurely game, without risking too much in the background. The Albirroja got excited again in the 66th minute when Andrés Cubas sent a bombing that crashed in the crossbar, after a clearance from Galíndez to a shot from the striker Antonio Sanabria.
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From there, there was a tense calm in the field without Paraguayans and Ecuadorians deciding to harm. On the last date of the Paraguay Qualifiers will visit next Tuesday the antepenultimate Peru at the National Stadium of Lima, while Ecuador will receive in the city of Guayaquil to Argentina, absolute and indestronable leader of the tie with 38 points.
