Nov. 20, 2022 coverage of the World Cup

The host nation of World Cup 2022, Qatar, was bested in its debut, dropping to Ecuador 2-0.

Ecuador did all its scoring within the first half. And it was Enner Valencia who netted each targets for La Tri. Valencia transformed a penalty within the fifteenth minute. Then he obtained his second later within the half, with a sublime header that discovered the underside left nook of Qatar’s objective.

Along with his two targets, Valencia turned his nation’s all-time main scorer, with 37 targets in 75 nationwide group appearances.

The South American nation has now received eight straight worldwide matches and 15 of its final 16.

The hosts struggled to provide you with offense within the match. Qatar fired 5 photographs at Ecuador’s objective with none hitting the goal.

Previous to Sunday, no host nation had misplaced its World Cup opening match within the earlier 21 editions of the event.

Subsequent up for Ecuador is the Netherlands on Friday. Qatar will meet Senegal in its second group stage match, on Friday as effectively.

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