In 8 preceding World Cup qualifiers away to Paraguay, going lower back to 1981, Ecuador have misplaced each single one.
If they avoid defeat, they might qualify for Qatar 2022 with a sport to spare, turning their very last in shape at domestic to Argentina in Guayaquil on March 29 into a celebration, some thing many Ecuadorans idea impossible when the campaign began.
"This national team deserves double the reward because you have to be very sincere, 99.9 percentage of Ecuadorans did not suppose they might qualify for the World Cup," Carlos Tenorio, a former international striker who scored two times for Ecuador at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, instructed El Universo.
"People still do not forget Tenorio's dreams in 2006," when Ecuador reached the closing sixteen.
"In our time we gave joy however now those men deserve much more and that they have a ways better situations than we did to acquire it."
Paraguay's slender hopes of accomplishing Qatar ended with a 1-zero loss at domestic to Uruguay at the cease of January and a four-zero defeat in Brazil on the start of February.
Brazil and Argentina secured qualification ultimate yr and both  stay unbeaten at some point of the marketing campaign.
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The top 4 teams inside the single South American qualifying institution earn automatic spots in Qatar, even as the fifth-located finishers input an inter-continental play-off.
Uruguay also can e book their berth on Thursday, once they host Peru in Montevideo.
