Yesterday, Thursday, and the early hours of Friday morning, a large number of matches were held in various stadiums of the world, most notably the qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in South America, which were marked by scoring a number of distinguished goals.
The goals of Thursday’s matches in the world’s stadiums were as follows:
The goals of the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup
Argentina 3 – 0 Bolivia
Lionel Messi, the star of Paris Saint-Germain, led the Argentine national team to beat its host Bolivian by three clean goals, in the meeting that brought them together in the early hours of Friday morning, at the “Monumental” stadium in the capital, Buenos Aires, as part of the tenth round of the South American qualifiers qualifying for the finals. World Cup 2022.
Argentina ended the first half with a clean goal, scored by star Lionel Messi in the 14th minute of the match, with a wonderful shot to the right of the Bolivian goalkeeper.
In the second half, Messi added the second goal of the Tango team in the 64th minute of the meeting, after a wonderful game with his colleague Lautaro Martinez, which Al-Barghout ended in the net.
The Paris star returned to score Argentina’s third “hat-trick”, in the 88th minute of the match, reaching his 79th goal with Argentina and becoming the historical top scorer for South America, surpassing former Brazilian star Pele’s number of 77 goals.
Brazil 2 – 0 Peru
Brazil beat its host Peru by a clean double, in the match that brought them together in the early hours of Friday morning, at the Arena Pernambuco in Recife, as part of the tenth round of matches of the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup.
Brazil’s two goals came in the first half of the match, Everton Ribeiro opened the scoring in the 14th minute of the match, after following a cross from Neymar, who met it in the Peruvian net.
Neymar added the second goal of the Seleção team in the 40th minute, after following a rebound from the Peruvian team’s defense to easily put it in the net.
Neymar became the historical top scorer for the Seleção team in the World Cup qualifiers with 12 goals, overtaking former star Romario 11 goals, equal with Zico.
Colombia 3-1 Chile
Colombia won a valuable victory over its guest Chile 3-1, in the meeting that brought them together in the early hours of Friday morning, at the “Metropolitano Roberto Melendez” stadium, as part of the tenth round of the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Colombia ended the first half of the match with a clean double, scored by Miguel Borja in the 19th and 20th minutes, the first came from a penalty kick, and VAR canceled a third goal for the Colombian team in the sixth minute.
In the second half, the Chilean team scored its only goal in the match through Jean Menses in the 56th minute, and Luis Diaz concluded the Colombia hat-trick in the 74th minute.
Uruguay 1 – 0 Ecuador
Uruguay snatched a fatal victory from its Ecuadorian guest, with a clean goal, in the match that brought the two teams together in the early hours of Friday, at the “Centenario” stadium, as part of the tenth round of the South American qualifiers for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
Gaston Pereiro scored the goal of Uruguay’s victory in the match in the second minute of stoppage time for the match, from a wonderful header, which was placed to the left of the Ecuador goalkeeper.