Luis Suárez continues to increase his legend with La Celeste. The striker ‘Charrua’ continues to break records, this time, a historic goalscoring record, by scoring his 27th goal in South American Qualifiers, making him the top scorer within this qualifier, advancing another active legend such as Leo Messi.
Suárez scored in the two appointments of this break, against Paraguay the solitary goal of victory, and this tuesday penalty against Venezuela, in a maximum penalty that ‘Lucho’ failed in a first attempt, but that the referee ordered to repeat, reaching that second attempt where the 9 if he would be able to beat Fariñez’s goal. Suárez is the second highest scorer in this edition of the qualifiers, tied at 7 goals with Neymar and Lautaro, and only behind the Bolivian Marcelo Martins, who has 10 goals in total.
In the absence of two games to conclude this qualifying phase, Suárez leads Messi in just 1 goal, so the Argentine will have a chance to regain the throne in this section, although it is possible that Leo will enjoy a few days of rest after the mathematical classification of the albiceleste for Qatar 2022.
? ?????? ???????? ????????? ?? ??? ?????????????
Luis Alberto Suarez Diaz, Uruguayan. #TheTeamQueNosUne pic.twitter.com/VmRNrtWWep
– Uruguayan National Team (@Uruguay) February 2, 2022
A machine for making numbers with Uruguay
Louis Suarez, In addition to being the all-time top scorer in the Qualifiers, He is also the man who has scored the most goals with the ‘Charrúa’ shirt, with a total of 67ahead of true legends like Cavaniwhich adds up to 54 and is still active, or Diego Forlanwho hung up his boots with a total of 36 goals.
Luis Suarez He is also the third player who has played the most matches with the Uruguayan national team.so alone Godinwho has played 155 games with La Celeste, and thighs who counts 131 games, surpass Luis Suárez, the latter by just one game, since the striker has a total of 130 caps.
