Surprise in the Pre-Olympic: Venezuela played high-altitude football, went to Brazil and left Ecuador without a place in the final quadrangular

With goals from Telasco Segovia, in double, and Rikelme, against, Venezuela made its home field count by beating Brazil 3-1 this Thursday and joining their team undefeated. Canarihna as classified for the final quadrangular of the South American Pre-Olympic which is played in the Caribbean country.

With his triumph, the Red wine added eight points and eliminated Ecuador, which had completed its four first-round games Monday. The Tri was left with seven units and depended on Venezuela, who was obliged to win to qualify.

Bolivia, eliminated like Colombia, greeted the tournament with four points and a 2-0 victory against the coffee team, who lost four matches. Bolivian striker José Briceño scored the goals in the 9th and 29th minutes.

In the 10th minute, Telasco completed a spectacular combination with midfielder David Martínez, who, surrounded by three defenders, returned the ball to him with a stick to allow him to score.

Telasco increases in the 31st minute, with good ball control after a long pass from defender Renne Rivas.

An own goal from Brazilian full-back Rikelme made it 3-0 in the 55th minute, in a failed attempt to deflect Matías Lacava’s shot, which he finished on target after an overflow down the left wing.

Midfielder Alexsandre scored a goal in the 90th minute to decorate the final result and prevent the defeat from being a crushing victory.

Coach Ramon Menezes rested three of his four scorers: Endrick, scorer of two goals, John Kennedy (1) and Marlon Gomes (1).

Gabriel Pirani, who has a goal under his belt, started. The negative score forced the entry of Endrick into the complement, who was neutralized by the rival defense.

Group B is led by Argentina with seven points and a better goal difference than Paraguay, also on seven points.

The Argentines and Paraguayans, without playing, qualified early on Tuesday. The Albiceleste, then Paraguay’s second team, beat Chile 5-0 and secured the ranking. Previously Uruguay had won 3-0, but Argentina’s victory eliminated the celestial team. Peru and Chile also failed to advance to the final round.

Peru, which has already played its four matches in the group stage, has three points like Peru and Chile.

Chile and Paraguay will face each other on Friday, while Argentina and Uruguay will do the same in the clashes that will define the first and second of the segment.

The top two in each group advance to the final phase. In this case, the four qualified teams will compete according to the round-robin format and those who finish in the top two places in the ranking will qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Next Monday, in the first round of the quadrangular In In the final, the first of group B will face Venezuela, while Brazil will face the second of group B.

Source: AP