Goals and Highlights: Paraguay 2-0 Venezuela in World Cup Qualifying 2021

End of the match. La Albirroja beats Venezuela 2-0.

GOOOOL. The Vino Tinto finally reflects its arrival on the scoreboard and Jhon Chancellor scores the 2-1.

Change of Paraguay. Hernán Pérez and José Ignacio Florentín come in. Alejandro Romero and Hugo Martínez come out.

Venezuela changes. Freddy Vargas and Bernaldo Manzano come in, Junior Moreno and Jan Hurtado come out. 

Paraguay substitution: Richard Sánchez in, óscar Romero out, óscar Cardozo in, Luis Amarilla out.

Venezuela changes. Rómulo Otero and Alexander González are out, Josef Martínez and Roberto Rosales are in.

Dressing room goal. Angel Romero sets up Alejandro Romero to make it 2-0 and increase the lead.

The action resumes. The last 45 minutes begin

Bello! Venezuela misses it in the clearest chance of the match for the Vino Tinto. The ball crashes against the crossbar.

Amarilla makes a personal run and sneaks to the back line, corner kick for Paraguay.

In Eduard Alexander Bello. Yeferson Soteldo comes off due to injury

A foul on the edge of the area and it is a dead ball for Venezuela.  Yellow for Ángel Romero

Amarilla tries a cross but the Vino Tinto goalkeeper keeps the ball well.

GOAL! Héctor David Martínez scores Paraguay's first goal with a great strike from outside the box.

Martinez is encouraged with a cross that the Romero duo cannot finish. Paraguay gives the first warning on the offensive

The meeting begins at Defensores del Chaco

Vino Tinto informed that soccer players Eric Ramírez and Ronald Hernández presented flu-like symptoms, so the national team activated CONMEBOL's biosecurity protocol and in the morning PCR tests were carried out, the players were isolated and are awaiting the results.

Joell Graterol, Rafael Romo, Francisco Lamantía, Bernaldo Manzano, Christian Rivas, Freddy Vargas, Jhon Murillo, Roberto Rosales, Josef Martínez, Eduardo Bello, Daniwl Carrillo, Edson Castillo

1. Wilker Fariñez
2.Nahuel Ferraresi
4.Jhon Chancellor
5.Junior Moreno
7.Jefferson Savarino
9.Jan Hurtado
10.Yeferson Soteldo
13. José Martínez
14. Oscar González
18.Romulo Otero
21.Alexander González
DT. Leo González

The Guaraní National Team is already at home and this is how it arrived

🏟 Ya estamos en el @ElDefensores ¡Vamos #Albirroja ⚪🔴!

🕡 18:30hs.#Paraguay 🇵🇾 🆚️ 🇻🇪 @SeleVinotinto #ElSueñoQueNosUne 🇵🇾#PoneteLaAlbirroja 🙌🏻 pic.twitter.com/DBZVc21ruV

— Selección Paraguaya (@Albirroja) September 9, 2021

La Albirroja's youngest fans gather at the Defensores del Chaco Stadium to support their national team, and this is how the Guarani national team shared a tender postcard on its social networks.

Alfredo Aguilar, Gerardo Ortíz, Marcos Cáceres, Omar Aldrrete, Santiago Arzamendia, Richard Sánchez, Gastón Giménez, José Florentin, Hernán Pérez, óscar Cardozo, Sebastián Ferreira, Julio Enciso

1.Antony Silva
2.Robert Rojas
4.Fabián Balbuena
6.Júnior Alonso
14.David Martínez
15. Hugo Martínez
23.Mathias Villasanti
21.Óscar Romero
10. Alejandro Romero Gamarra
11. Ángel Romero
18.Luis Amarilla
DT. Eduardo Berrizo

We are minutes away from the start of the duel between Paraguay and Venezuela in the CONMEBOL Playoffs, in which four direct tickets and one playoff ticket are obtained. So far, the qualification of these teams looks complicated for Venezuela, which occupies the last place with 4 units. Paraguay is still fighting for the playoffs and even a fourth place.

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This is the start time of the game Paraguay vs Venezuela of 9th September 2021 in several countries:

Mexico: 17:30 PM in
Paraguay: 19:30 PM in
Peru: 13:30 PM in 
Uruguay: 20:30 PM in 
Venezuela: 18:30 PM 

Rómulo Otero, who has received the fourth highest number of fouls (21) during this qualifying campaign, for his elusive way of playing and desperate brand desperation.

 Paraguay's Angel Romero assisted the opening goal in his last appearance and, impressively, only Neymar and Marcelo Moreno have scored more goals in this CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying campaign (four).

The Defensores del Chaco Stadium is the most emblematic soccer stadium in Paraguay. It is located in the Sajonia neighborhood of the city of Asunción. This stadium, which usually hosts numerous national and international soccer matches of various kinds, has historically been the home of the Paraguayan national soccer team.

It is also one of the few stadiums in the world that belongs to its respective national association.

Capacity 42,000 spectators

Venezuela has won as many games as their opponents during this campaign, although fewer draws and more defeats have landed them at the bottom of the group standings (G1, E1, P8). Starting to pick up wins from this point could be enough to change their chances of qualification, but their overall performance will not help them and you have to go back to November 2020 to find the last time they won a game.
An obvious problem during this period is their lack of goals, having failed to score in five of their last eight games. This, combined with the fact that Venezuela has conceded at least one goal before halftime in the same number of matches, shows why they have the label of broad underdogs in this clash.

Paraguay had a familiar feeling on Saturday after a 1-1 draw against Colombia, recording its fifth draw so far in this CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying campaign (G1, P2). Despite that disappointing record, they sit just two points below the qualifying spot for the inter-confederation playoffs, so a first World Cup appearance since 2010 remains a realistic ambition.
A win in this clash is imperative against a team ranked seven places below them in the FIFA rankings if they are to meet their target. Despite this, history works against Eduardo Berizzo's side, as the home side have won just one of their last nine (E3, P5) World Cup qualifiers at home and have not recorded a clean sheet in World Cup matches since October 2015 (0-0 against Argentina).

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