The main Ecuadorian media celebrated in a big way the victory of Ecuador 2-0 over Qatar in the first match of the Qatar 2022 World Cup where the Ecuadorians completely dominated the host who never had a chance against a clearly superior eleventh South American.
The newspaper El Universo headlined on its website “The dominance of the Tri against the hosts, clearly inferior, ended up translating into the score thanks to Valencia.”
While El Comercio headlined “Historical, Ecuador won in the first game of the Qatar 2022 World Cup”, and said that November 20 is a historic day after Ecuador’s victory over Qatar 2-0 “
The President of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, congratulated the players through their social networks: “When we Ecuadorians find ourselves inspired and prepared like the players of the soccer team, we can build all the victories we dream of, let’s move on, Ecuador The whole thing supports them,” said the president.
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The Ecuadorian eleventh was a clear dominator of the game from the initial whistle, only three minutes later, the VAR annulled a goal to Enner Valencia for a millimeter offside, Ecuador did not under pressure and the goalkeeper Saad Al Sheeb fouled him in the small area to Enner Valencia, who took the penalty at minute 16′ for the first goal of the World Cup and the match.
At minute 31′ again in an excellent collective play Angelo Preciado sent a cross into the area and Enner Valencia with a superb header made it 2-0 for the Ecuadorians, the Qataris were completely dominated in the first 45 minutes.
At the start of additional time, Ecuador continued to dominate the game, following the rhythms in which the match was played against an opponent who could not find a way to generate offensive plays, the Ecuadorians were closer to scoring the third goal than the Qataris to get at least one.
With this result, Ecuador adds three points and in its next match it will face the Netherlands on November 25, while Qatar, which is now under pressure to get points, faces Senegal that same day.
