Dunga Lives to Fight Another Day in CONMEBOL World Cup Qualifying

September 7th, 2008 | by: Daryl |

What a difference a win makes, eh? This morning Brazil were fifth in the CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying group, which only gets you a World Cup playoff spot. Between that and the (relative) failure in Beijing, Dunga’s job security depended on how Brazil did in Santiago against Chile tonight.

They won 3-0, with two goals from Luis Fabiano and one from Robinho (video below.) And it could have been four if Ronaldinho’s penalty hadn’t been saved – brilliantly saved – by Chile keeper Claudio Bravo (video of that below too).

The win takes Brazil up to second in the qualifying group, leapfrogging Argentina. Standings are below. Actually everything’s below. What are you still doing up here?

Fabiano’s first goal:

Bravo’s penalty save from Ronaldinho:

Great finish from Robinho:

Fabiano’s second:

(all four videos via 101 Great Goals)

And here’s what the table looks like right now (shamelessly “borrowed” from Wikipedia) with another round of games to come in midweek:

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Paraguay	7	4	2	1	14	6	+8	14
Brazil	7	3	3	1	11	4	+7	12
Argentina	7	3	3	1	10	4	+6	12
Uruguay	7	3	2	2	16	6	+10	11
Colombia	7	2	4	1	4	3	+1	10
Chile	7	3	1	3	9	12	-3	10
Ecuador	7	2	2	3	10	14	−4	8
Venezuela	7	2	1	4	9	11	−2	7
Peru	7	1	3	3	4	15	−11	6
Bolivia	7	1	1	5	8	20	−12	4

Midweek games:

09 Sep 08 20:00 Paraguay vs Venezuela
10 Sep 08 17:40 Uruguay vs Ecuador
10 Sep 08 18:40 Chile vs Colombia
10 Sep 08 21:30 Peru vs Argentina
10 Sep 08 21:50 Brazil vs Bolivia

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http://juventus.theoffside.com alessio

Dunga’s still a lousy coach.

It’ll be interesting to see if Amauri ever gets called up.
Josimars

Dunga is okay. he has his style of playing and while it is not the most stylish it has been reasonably effective so far. Diego who I have criticized alot in the past had a very good game. He was tackling and not easily going to ground when tackled hence the penalty that Dinho missed. But most of all was his vision. He is going to have to fight to keep his place when kaka comes back. Dinho is still finding his feet. he just needs more matches under his belt. Robinho you could see lost some of his rhythm but got better and better as the match wore on. Kebler I think has a head case. he was lucky he wasn’t sent off for the first vicious kick that he made against the chilean player. If the ref had seen it he might have been sent off. I am almost sure Dunga and Jorginho is letting him have it behind close doors
http://www.worldcupblog.org Daryl

Anyone interested in captaining the Brazil WCB ?

Email daryl[at]theoffside[dot]com if so.
http://yahoo Kumagah solomon

i wuold prefer Ronaldinho been call back and hand the captain ban back to him
http://yahoo Kumagah solomon

Also ranaldinho, kaka, robinho, fabiano should featured as first eleven in the next conmebol world cup qualifying