All the 10 teams from the South American continent played their qualifying matches today. The big match of the day was between the two super powers of football, Argentina and Brazil. Five times world champion, Brazil humiliated Argentina by defeating them 3-1 in front of the Argentinean crowd in Rosario.
This time it was Argentina, 4th placed team in the group who was playing at home and had a chance to score a win in front of their home fans. Argentina showed promised at the start of the game, and almost scored in the 1st minute itself, but probably lost their touch through the course of the game.
Brazil didn’t take long to take the lead. Luisao scored in the 23rd minute. Seven minutes later Luis Fabiano scored another for Brazil, much to the disbelief of the Argentineans. Brazil kept pushing Argentina even after leading the game 2-0 at half time.
There were a few streaks of genius from Messi but the hero was Dátolo whose screamer in the 64th minute got a goal back for Argentina and the 45000 fans in the stadium were frenzied as they believed they can still win this game.
2 minutes later Luis Fabiano scored his second goal for the night, the 3rd for Brazil. The goal made the score line 3-1 giving Brazilians a boost cushion, and keeping the Argentineans out of reach. The match ended at 3-1 to Brazil. The win made Brazil the first team to qualify for the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa and the loss looks damaging for the Argentineans to qualify for the finals.
