3-0: Venezuela beats a Chile team in crisis

The purposes of Yeferson Soteldo, Salomón Rondón and Darwin Machís they gave to Venezuela comfortable 3-0 win against chilliwhich leaves it seven points clear at the top of the table for the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup and leaves those led by Eduardo Berizzo.

So, after the match in the fourth round of the playoffs, the locals are temporarily placed in third place in the standings, with seven points, waiting for the results of the rest of the day.

Soteldo He opened the scoring in the 47th minute, after an assist from Jose Martinez, who stole the ball from his rival and then gave it to his teammate.

Already in the second half, Rondonwho played this Tuesday his 100th game with Vinotinto, confirmed his status as an indispensable reference for his team, scoring the second of the three goals of the match – the 41st in his history with Vinotinto to confirm his status as Venezuela’s top scorer -, after help from Soteldo.

Following this, a gallop of Soteldoa nod of Solomon and the meaning of Machis scored the third goal for the motivated Vinotinto in the match played at the Monumental stadium in Maturín, this Venezuelain the 79th minute.

The Venezuelan got the first clear shot of the match in the 18th minute, with a header from close range Rondona scoring chance blocked by the rival goalkeeper, Brian Corteswith some reflexes in time to save The redwho held the ball better and showed more precision in passing.

Starting in the second half, the same Philip Loyola as Gabriel Suazo They tried to create a chance to equalize the score, but failed.

Soon, Chile was left with 10 players, then Marcelino Nunez He was shown a red card just 12 minutes after entering the field, replacing Charles Aránguiz.

Data sheet:

3. Venezuela: Rafael Romo; Miguel Navarro, Wuilker Ángel, Yordan Osorio, Alexander González; Yangel Herrera (m.57: Tomás Rincón), José Martínez (m.65: José Martínez), Eduard Bello (m.46: Cristian Cásseres); Yeferson Soteldo, Salomón Rondón (m.86: Josef Martínez) and Samuel Sosa (m.57: Darwin Machis).

Selector: Fernando Batista.

0. Chile: Brian Cortes; Gabriel Suazo, Paulo Díaz, Gary Medel, Felipe Loyola; Charles Aránguiz (m.46: Marcelino Núñez), Rodrigo Echeverría, Víctor Méndez (m.67: Víctor Dávila); Ben Brereton (m.67: Alexander Aravena), Alexis Sánchez and Diego Valdés (m.21: Darío Osorio, m.80: Williams Alarcón).

Selector: Eduardo Berizzo.

Purpose: 3-0, m.47: Yeferson Soteldo, m.73: Salomón Rondón, m.79: Darwin Machís.

Referee: Brazilian Flavio Rodrigues de Souza showed red to Chilean Marcelino Núñez and yellow to Gabriel Suazo.

Incidents: The match on the fourth day of the South American qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup was played at the Monumental Stadium of Maturín, in the state of Monagas, with a capacity for 50,000 spectators.