Edinson Cavani suffered a calf injury in Chile v Uruguay and was replaced by Luis Suarez

Bad news for the Uruguayan national team, which suffers a severe loss in the middle of the match against the Chilean national team, as part of the last date of the South American Qualifiers heading to Qatar 2022. The striker apparently made a great effort in the rival area and ended up throwing himself to the ground to be taken care of. Finally, it was changed by Luis Suarez.

Everything happened within 25 minutes of the engagement at the San Carlos de Apoquindo stadium, which has fans of both selected in the stands. After a corner, the Manchester United player sat on the grass and began to rub his calf. Immediately his teammates and rivals approached him to ask him what was going on.

The veteran athlete stopped and left on his own, but with clear gestures of pain. At the same time Luis Suárez, striker of Atlético Madrid, made his entry to replace him and take the position of area benchmark. In the next few hours, an official medical report of the Uruguayan national team will probably be issued.

For now the match is even, with some options for each selected. However, nothing dangerous enough so far for archers Sergio Rochet and Brayan Cortes. The most impressive thing so far was the very hard foul that Arturo Vidal gave to Ronald Araujo in the 18th minute of the match.

CHILE VS URUGUAY

Chile still has a minimal chance to reach fifth place, although for this it will depend on a victory against Uruguay and two results, defeat for Peru and Colombia. On the other hand, the 'Charrúas' do not play for nothing after having found their direct classification on the penultimate date of the South American Qualifiers heading to Qatar 2022. However, Diego Alonso puts up a team for victory.

For this important match, those led by Martín Lasarte last week saved goalkeeper Brayan Cortes, defender Guillermo Maripán and attacker Ben Brereton against Brazil. In addition, Erick Pulgar was ruled out for having tested positive for COVID-19. Three of them will make headlines tonight in Santiago.

The San Carlos de Apoquindo stadium has mostly fans from the Chilean national team, but there are also attendees from the 'Charrúas', who expect their country to close this best qualifier to be held in Asia since November.

Chile reaches this match after a 4-0 defeat to Brazil. In this tournament he scored 5 wins, four draws and eight lost matches. The best result happened in 2021, when he beat Venezuela 3-1 at home, the goals were from Erick Pulgar and a double by Ben Brereton, a footballer who represents the 'mapochos' of the last Copa América and today he is the ninth benchmark.

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