Goals and Highlights: Uruguay 4-1 Venezuela in World Cup Qualifiers 2022

The match is over, Uruguay beats Venezuela.

Back and forth duel, Venezuela looks for the second goal.

Goalkeeper! De Arrascaeta's shot, but Faríñez ends up keeping out the fifth.

Goalkeeper! Double save by Faríñez preventing Darwin Núñez and Luis Suárez from scoring the fifth.

A shot that Rondón ends up preventing from entering his goal.

Change of Uruguay. Damián Suárez and Arambarri are substituted by Rodríigo Bentancur and Valverde.

Venezuela looks for the second, but does not find good definition.

Change in Venezuela. Junior Moreno replaces Josef Martínez.

Change of Uruguay. Edison Cavani and Facundo Pellistri are replaced by Darwin Núñez and Agustín Canobbio.

Goal, goal, goal for Venezuela! Giménez loses the ball and Josef Martínez appears to steal the ball and send it into the back of Rochet's net.

Hernandez's header ends up with Rochet keeping the ball.

ANNULED! Cavani increased the lead, but the referee signals offside.

Goal, goal, goal for Uruguay! Luis Suarez shoots the wrong side and ends up scoring the fourth of the night.

It will be repeated! The VAR reviews the play and decides to retake the penalty kick, after two Venezuelan players got into the box before the shot.

Goalkeeper! Faríñez guesses Suárez's shot and avoids another one.

Penalty! Ferraresi's foul is awarded to Uruguay.

VAR! The referee will review a foul on Ferraresi by Pellistri.

Changes in Venezuela. Rómulo Otero and Darwin Machís are replaced by Josef Martínez and John Murillo.

The second half kicked off in Montevideo.

The first half is over, Uruguay already leads Venezuela at halftime.

Goal, goal, goal for Uruguay! Edison Cavani takes a bicycle kick and after De Arrascaeta's cross, the striker pushes the ball into the back of the net to increase the lead.

Diego Godín gets in the way of Roldón's cross, preventing it from creating danger.

Suárez's shot, but Faríñez saves the ball and avoids the third.

A powerful shot from Cavani, but the ball crashes into the defense and ends up going out of play.

Soteldo reached the end line, but was unable to score a goal.

Goal, goal, goal for Uruguay! De Arrascaeta took advantage of an excellent play by Pellistri who gave the ball for De Arrascaeta to just push it into the back of the net.

Cavani's shot at Faríñez's goal, but the ball ends up in the stands.

Soteldo's shot, but the ball ends up in Rochet's hands.

Uruguay looks for the second, but the last line fails to define the final line

Goal, goal, goal for Uruguay! Bentancur sent a shot that surprised Faríñez, who could not prevent the scoreboard from opening.

Uruguay and Venezuela kick off at the Centenario Stadium.

W. Faríñez; O. González, N. Ferreresi, J. Chancellor, R. Hernández; J. Martínez, T. Rincón, Y. Soteldo, R. Otero, D. Machís; J. Rondón.

S. Rochet; R. Araújo, D. Godín, J. Giménez, M. Olivera; F. Pellistri, R. Betancur, F. Valverde, G. De Arrascaeta; L. Suárez, E. Cavani.

Both teams are already warming up on the field and will be looking to have a good game and add one more victory to their harvest.

The team coached by Pekerman is already at Uruguay's home, tonight they will try to surprise and beat the locals.

The Uruguayan National Team is already at the Centenario stadium, tonight they will be looking to continue adding three points and get closer to a direct qualification.

Uruguay and Venezuela have faced each other on 32 occasions, of which Uruguay has won 18 matches against Venezuela's 5 and nine ties between the two teams.

Uruguay has to pay special attention to Salomón Rondón, the striker arrives after scoring three goals against Bolivia, in this match he will look to continue adding to his personal account and generate danger in the area.

This is what the Centenario Stadium looks like today, ready to receive Uruguay and Venezuela, in anticipation of a pleasant encounter between these two teams.

Venezuela has accumulated 26 goals against and only 13 in favor, this afternoon they will try to prevent the number of goals against them from increasing.

Pekerman spoke before this match: "Venezuela needed to start a project that aims at the next World Cup and its previous qualification. We have to transform that illusion into continuity, growth and patience, in order to achieve the best performances".

We are back to bring you up-to-the-minute coverage of the match between Uruguay and Venezuela. This match is part of the qualifiers for Qatar 2022. We will soon share with you the most relevant information as well as the confirmed lineups.

In a few moments we will share with you the starting lineups for Uruguay vs Venezuela live, as well as the latest information from the Estadio Centenario. Don't miss any details of the match with VAVEL's up-to-the-minute live online coverage. 

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This is the kick-off time for the Uruguay vs Venezuela match on February 1, 2022 in several countries:

 

Argentina: 8 p.m. on DeporTV

Uruguay: 8:00 p.m. on Canal to be confirmed

Brazil: 8:00 p.m. on Canal a confirmar

Chile: 8:00 p.m. on TNT Sports and TNT Sports HD

Paraguay: 8:00 p.m. on Canal a confirmar

Bolivia: 7pm on TigoSports App

Venezuela: 7:00 p.m. on Canal a confirmar

Colombia: 6 p.m. on Channel TBC

Ecuador: 6:00 p.m. on El Canal del Fútbol and ECDF Youtube

Peru: 6 p.m. on Movistar Deportes

Mexico: 5:00 p.m. on SKY Sports

Diego Alonso spoke after beating Paraguay and before this match: "The players are motivated, aware, knowing that qualifying to the World Cup depends on us and what we can do. We have it in our hands".

"My head today is in this World Cup, there is nothing else but this World Cup, that's what I let the board and the players know the first day I spoke to them. Yes, one has to have a project (later) and we have developed it, but my energy is focused on the three games we have left and the World Cup."

Wuilker Fariñez; Nahuel Ferraresi, John Cancellor, Tomás Rincón, Yeferson Soteldo, Darwin Machís, José Martínez Óscar González, Rómulo Otero, Ronald Hernández, Salomón Rondón.

Sergio Rochet, José Giménez, Diego Godín, Mathías Olivera, Ronald Araújo, Rodrigo Bentancur, Matías Vecino, Federico Valverde, Facundo Pellistri, Luis Suárez, Darwin Núñez.

Venezuela is in the last position of the table with only 10 points. In their last match they managed to beat Bolivia by four goals to one, so they are in good shape in terms of morale.

Uruguay reached 19 points after the victory in their last match against Paraguay by the minimum, a match where Diego Alonso made his debut in the charrúa bench.

The Uruguay vs Venezuela match will be played at the Centenario Stadium, located in Montevideo, Uruguay. The stadium has a capacity for 60,235 people. 

 

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