Uruguay announces its lineup to face Ecuador

Uruguay faces Ecuador’s Flamengo hat-trick from Gonzalo Plata at 8:30pm (Brasilia time) on Tuesday (15).

It’s flamingo vs flamingo. Starting at 8:30pm (Brasilia time), Uruguay, from De La Cruz, Arrascaeta and Varela, faces Ecuador from Gonzalo Plata. The confrontation takes place within the tenth round of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers, and will be held at the Centenario Stadium in Montevideo. Celeste’s coach, Marcelo “El Loco” Bielsa, selected only one of the three Mengão players among his starting lineup.

See Uruguay’s lineup

rochet; Nandez, Jiménez, Bueno and Oliveira; Ugarte, Valverde and Arascaeta; Pellistri, M. Araujo and Nuñez.

Last Friday (11), Uruguay played and lost away to Peru with a score of 1-0, on that occasion, Arrascaeta and Varela started and played 90 minutes. De la Cruz did not leave the bench. This Tuesday (15), “Loco” Bielsa returns Flamengo’s number 14 to the starting lineup.

Flamingo

Arascaeta, de la Cruz and Varela will meet Gonzalo Plata, Flamengo’s teammate. The Ecuadorian winger returned to the national team after seven months last Thursday (10) and started in the goalless draw with Paraguay. Now, the red and black winger is trying to make history, after all, Uruguay has never lost to tonight’s home opponent.

In order to break the mark, Ecuador is betting on the crisis that Uruguay is experiencing. This is because Celeste players and former athletes assaulted coach Marcelo Bielsa. The person who led the movement was Luis Suarez, who announced his retirement from playing with the national team and complained that the coach did not even offer “Good morning” To whom did he order. Current team members, such as Federico Valverde, did not take a “word” of what the experienced striker said and revealed the bad moment internally.

airplane

Flamengo chartered a plane to bring Uruguay and Plata to Brazil as quickly as possible. After all, on Thursday (17), Rubro-Negro plays the classics Fluminensefor Brazilirão. Therefore, the quartet is expected to train in Ninho do Orobo, on Wednesday afternoon (16).

Another foreign player called up to Data FIFA is Pulgar, who faced Colombia in Barranquilla. However, Flamengo chose not to charter a flight, and the Chilean is not expected to train on Wednesday (16) and with the chances of facing off against… Fluminense the next day. Finally, Gerson and Fabricio Bruno are in Brasilia for Brazil’s match against Peru, and they don’t worry Mingão.