Uruguay lead 2018 race, Argentina struggle

SAO PAULO, Oct 13 (Reuters) - Argentina remain winless and goalless after their first two 2018 World Cup qualifiers に引き続いて a 0-0 draw in Paraguay on Tuesday, while Brazil got off the 示す in the South American group with a 3-1 home 勝利,勝つ over Venezuela.

Uruguay, Chile and Ecuador made it two 勝利,勝つs from two games, with the Uruguayans shrugging off the absence of 一時停止するd strikers Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani to 最高の,を越す the group on goal difference after (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域ing Colombia 3-0.

Ecuador, who stunned Argentina in Buenos 空気/公表するs five days ago, 得点する/非難する/20d another 2-0 勝利,勝つ, this time at home over Bolivia and sit second in the 10-team group.

Chile followed up last week's 勝利,勝つ over Brazil with a 4-3 victory in Peru to sit third, ahead of Paraguay on four points, Brazil and Colombia on three, and 2014 World Cup finalists Argentina on one.

Without the 負傷させるd Lionel Messi and Sergio Aguero, Carlos Tevez was 仕事d with 主要な the Argentina attack in Asuncion and 長,率いるd a good Angel Di Maria cross just over the 妨げる/法廷,弁護士業.

Tevez then 苦しむd a broken nose 早期に in the second half when he was 攻撃する,衝突する by defender 勝利者 Caceres's 肘 going for a high ball and spent four minutes 存在 包帯d up before returning the fray.

He was 結局 代用品,人d in the 75th minute and is still looking for his first Argentina goal in four years.

"We're sorry not to have got the three points which we had come for. I'm not happy with one point because we needed to 勝利,勝つ the match," Argentina c oach Gerardo Martino said.

Brazil, without the 一時停止するd Neymar, raced into the lead after 40 seconds with the first of two first-half goals from Willian at the Castelao in Fortaleza.

Three minutes before halftime the midfielder 二塁打d Brazil's lead. Defender Filipe Luis crossed the ball, Oscar let it run and Willian tucked it away.

Venezuela pulled one 支援する in the 64th minute through Christian Santos at a corner but striker Ricardo Oliveira 回復するd Brazil's two-goal cushion nine minutes later.

URUGUAY TOP

Uruguay took the lead after 33 minutes when centre 支援する Diego Godin rose to 弾丸 home a header from a Carlos Sanchez corner kick.

Striker Diego Rolan 追加するd a second six minutes into the second half with a 半導体素子 over goalkeeper David Ospina and 代用品,人 Abel Hernandez got a third after 87 minutes.

"We don't know if we'll get to Russia, for that we must work a lot in all these matches," said Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez. "We can't hope to 勝利,勝つ matches just with 防御の 策略."

Juan Cuadrado was sent off in the dying moments at the Centenario to cap a 哀れな night for Colombia, who were without the 負傷させるd James Rodriguez.

Copa America 支持する/優勝者s Chile (警官の)巡回区域,受持ち区域 10-man Peru in Lima with two goals each from strikers Alexis Sanchez and Eduardo Vargas.

Sanchez put Chile in 前線 but Peru equalised in the 10th minute through Jefferson Farfan.

Peru were 減ずるd to 10 men in the 23rd minute after Christian Cueva was sent off for kicking out at Jorge Valdivia but still managed to 得る,とらえる the lead when Farfan 変えるd a 36th-minute 刑罰,罰則.

Vargas pulled Chile level four minutes before halftime, Sanchez 回復するd their lead in the 44th and Vargas 得点する/非難する/20d his second four minutes into the second half.

Paolo Guerrero struck Peru's third in 追加するd time.

Ecuador, still on a high after their 勝利,勝つ in Buenos 空気/公表するs, overcame the elements and a stuffy Bolivia 味方する to 勝利,勝つ in Quito.

Miller Bolanos got the first goal in the 81st minute and Felipe Caicedo 追加するd a second from the 刑罰,罰則 位置/汚点/見つけ出す in 傷害 time after he was felled in the box. (令状ing by Andrew Downie and Rex Gowar; Editing by Peter Rutherford)

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