While the Brazilian team continued to win the full mark in the South American qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, the Argentine team missed a golden opportunity to restore the tone of victories in the qualifiers.

The "samba" team achieved the sixth victory in a row, and beat its host Paraguay 2-0 on Tuesday evening (Wednesday morning GMT) in the eighth round of the qualifying matches.

And the Corona pandemic caused the postponement of the matches of the fifth and sixth rounds of the qualifiers, which were scheduled last March.

The Brazilians opened the scoring through Neymar, the French star of Saint-Germain, 3 minutes after the start, then Lucas Paqueta - with a pass from Neymar - added the second goal in the third minute of stoppage time.

With this victory, the "samba dancers" raise their score to 18 points in the lead, and 6 points ahead of the Argentine team, which is in second place.

As for the Paraguay team, its score stuck at 7 points in sixth place after receiving its first defeat in the qualifying competitions, compared to one victory and 4 draws.

On the other hand, Argentina missed the "Tango" a golden opportunity to regain the tone of victories in the World Cup qualifiers, and fell into a 2-2 draw with its Colombian hosts on Tuesday evening (Wednesday morning GMT) in the eighth round of the qualifiers.

Albasilisi was on its way to defeating its Colombian hosts with two goals scored by Cristian Romero (3) and Leandro Paredes (8), against a goal scored by Luis Muriel (51 from a penalty kick). the lost.

The Argentine team raised its score to 12 points in second place in the qualifying table, compared to 8 points for Colombia in fifth place.

The Peruvian national team got rid of negative results in the qualifiers, and the team achieved its first victory in these qualifiers by beating its Ecuadorian host 2-1 in the same round.

The goals of the winning team were scored by Christian Cueva (63) and Luis Advincola (88), against a goal scored by Gonzalo Plata in the last minute of the match after the first half ended in a goalless tie.

Peru raised its score to 4 points, but remained in the last tenth place in the qualifying table, with a goal difference only behind Bolivia and Venezuela.

The Ecuadorean national team has 9 points in third place.

Uruguay ranked fourth with 8 points, after a goalless draw with Venezuela.