Surprise of Uruguay Venezuela and the smell of the classification

The choice of Uruguay He returned to La Victoria on Tuesday after six months of beating 2-0 to Venezuela At a meeting set up on the sixth day of the South American qualified 2026 world. After winning one of his last 12 games between this competition and last year’s Copa América, the team led by Marcelo Bielsa celebrated at home and ended the beautiful stripes of Vinotinto.

Rodrigo Aguirre and Giorgian de Arrascaeta bind goals where Celeste reached 24 points in classification and walking in the World Cup to organize Canada, the United States and Mexico. Venezuela, on the other hand, was left with 18 points and remained in a repechage zone, even though she lost the advantage that Bolivia took after defeating her last Friday.

It was the first of the Oscar Villegas to reach 17 points after defeating a Chile who informed his chance to play the World Cup. In a boring early part where everything indicates that nothing will be destroyed in zero, Rodrigo Aguirre broke Rafael Romo’s resistance to 43 minutes to put 1-0. The Mexican America striker scored his head after a corner kick that Maximiliano Araújo was well executed. Before, Rastaeta approached Celeste with a shot that went above the horizontal and Miguel Navarro approached Vinotinto with a shot near the right vertical.

Technical file

2 – Uruguay: Santiago Mele; Nahitan Nández (M.85, Guillermo Varela), Ronald Araujo, José María Giménez, Mathías Olivera; Rodrigo Bentancur (M.79, Sebastián Cáceres), Manuel Ugarte, Giorgian de Arrascaeta (M.86, Nicolás Fsececa); Facundo Pellistri, Rodrigo Aguirre and Maximiliano Araújo.
0 – Venezuela: Rafael Romo; Jon Aramburu (M.76, Alexander González), Nahuel Ferraresi, Wilker ángel, Miguel Navarro; Cristian Césres (M.45, Eduard Bello), Yangel Herrera, José Martínez (M.58, Telsco Segovia), Yeferson Sot Salawa (M.58, Jhonder Cádiz); David Martínez (M.58, Jefferson Savarino) and Solomon Rondón.
Objectives: 1-0, Rodrigo Aguirre (m. 43); 2-0, Giorgian de Arrascaeta (m. 47)
Referee: Raphael Claus. He advised Yangel Herrera, José Martínez, Ronald Araujo and Namitan nández.
Incidents: Game of eleven days of the South American Qualifiers of the World Cup of 2026 played at Montevideo’s Centennial Stadium.

At the beginning of the second part, before the visitor reacted, Uruguay lowered the blind to the game with a new goal. A strong distant shot of De Astraeta turned 47 minutes to 2-0 and the game ended.

Celeste won 207 days and took a great step toward the World Cup, leaving ghosts that arose because of the low performance Bielsa showed at previous meetings. Venezuela will finish qualified for visiting Argentina will receive Colombia.