Brazil, who got the ticket several days ago, leads the standings with 42 points, while Chile ranks seventh with 19 units, outside of the four direct qualifying spots and fifth place leading to a playoff between South America and Asia.
In the game that was played before some 65,000 spectators at the Maracaná stadium in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil prevailed as the clear dominant team against a Chilean team that had little reaction.
In the first half, the team led by Tite handled the ball and brought danger on several occasions to the goal defended by Claudio Bravodespite the fact that his rival accumulated soccer players near his own area to protect his goal.
Brazil opened the scoring in the 43rd minute through a penalty converted by Neymar, after an infraction that Mauricio Isla committed against the Paris Saint Germain striker inside the area.
Two minutes later, Vinicius Junior was left in front of Bravo and scored with a cross shot, after a good play by Anthony for the right sector.
In the second stage, the Argentine referee Darío Herrera annulled Chile a goal scored at minute 47 by Arturo vidal after checking with the video arbitration system (VAR).
Brazil he scored his third goal in the 71st minute through a penalty scored by Philippe Coutinho.
The fourth goal of the “verdeamarela” team came at minute 91 with a long-distance shot from Richarlison.
On the next day of the qualifying competition, Chile will host Uruguay, while Brazil will be visiting Bolivia.
Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador and Uruguay are classified for the World Cup, while the place for the playoff between Peru, Colombia and Chile remains to be defined, with 21, 20 and 19 units in the table, respectively.
The “golden generation” of Chilean soccer, twice champion of America in 2015 and 2016, and qualified for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups, will need to win on the last date and wait for negative results from Peru and Colombia to avoid suffering their second elimination consecutive, after failing to qualify for the World Cup in Russia in 2018.
formations
Brazil: Alisson; Danilo, Marquinhos, Thiago Silva and Guilherme Arana; Casemiro, Fred and Lucas Paquetá; Antony, Vinicius Junior and Neymar. DT: Tite.
Chile: Claudio Bravo; Mauricio Isla, Paulo Diaz, Gary Medel, Enzo Roco and Gabriel Suazo; Claudio Baeza, Charles Aránguiz and Arturo Vidal; Alexis Sanchez and Eduardo Vargas. DT: Martin Lazarte.
Referee: Darío Herrera, from Argentina.
Field: Maracana, from Rio de Janeiro.
Source: Ambito
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