Brazil v Argentina: 2026 World Cup qualifying – live | Football
Key occasions Present key occasions solely Please activate JavaScript to make use of this function Preamble Welcome to a vital World Cup qualifier between first-place Argentina and fifth-place Brazil, the place … … wait … do the standings matter? CONMEBOL, the South American federation, has the only and fairest qualification system. No comparisons of runners-up throughout disparate teams. No draw that creates a “Group of Dying.” No “playoff to get into the group stage that determines who goes to the playoff.” Ten groups. Double round-robin. That’s it. It’s a good format. It’s additionally fairly forgiving. So Brazil are at present in fifth place, wanting up not solely at everlasting rival Argentina and traditionally achieved nations equivalent to Uruguay and Colombia but additionally at Venezuela. If not for a three-point penalty to Ecuador, Brazil could be trailing them, too. And they might nonetheless be heading in the right direction to qualify for the following World Cup, which can embrace a mind-boggling 48 groups. Even when issues have been actually horrific, Brazil would have almost two years to repair the issue(s). The final video games on this competitors are in September 2025. So should you’re simply tuning…