Argentina vs Uruguay

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World Cup champions When Argentina hosts Uruguay at La Bombonera in Buenos Aires on Thursday night, they hope to continue their unbeaten start in 2026 CONMEBOL qualifying.

In their most recent qualifier last month, the visitors, meanwhile, will be hoping to build on their valiant triumph over South American powerhouses Brazil.Argentina is feeling confident going into Thursday's match since they have won their past 14 international games in all competitions and scored 34 goals in the process. Since defeating France to win the World Cup in December of last year, La Albiceleste have also kept eight straight clean sheets.

The chance to go eight points clear of second-place Uruguay with a win on Friday will spur Argentina on, and they'll be eager to continue their winning ways into their match against Brazil on Wednesday. Brazil is now five points behind Scaloni's team.

Given that La Albiceleste has defeated La Celeste in all seven of their previous encounters and has won the last three by an overall score of 5-0, they will be optimistic about their chances of victory against Uruguay.

After losing 2-1 to Ecuador in September, Uruguay turned around and won both of their World Cup qualifying matches against Colombia and Brazil last month, securing a 2-2 tie in the first and a historic 2-0 triumph in the second.

champions of the World Cup twice Uruguay is now in second place in the CONMEBOL standings, but they are only three points ahead of Chile in eighth place. If they want to stay in the automatic qualification spots going into the New Year, they cannot afford to drop their game.

The Argentine-born manager Bielsa, who has led Uruguay to victory in four of his first six games since taking over in May, will be eager to improve his team's performance on the road, since they had only triumphed in two of their previous nine World Cup qualifying matches, with at least two goals conceded in five of those contests.

Uruguay's most recent triumph over Argentina came in October 2013, when they prevailed 3-2 at home in a World Cup qualifying match. Their most recent victory on Argentine territory was in July 1987, when they narrowly defeated Argentina 1-0 in the Copa America quarterfinals before winning the championship.

Darwin Nunez's 90th-minute penalty saved Uruguay's draw with Colombia, and the Liverpool forward went on to lead La Celeste to their first victory over Brazil in 22 years. He opened the score with a diving header in the 42nd minute and then set up Nicolas de la Cruz for a second goal on the 77th minute, helping Marcelo Bielsa's team to all three points in a game marred by Neymar's serious knee injury.