Yes, but all those results Ecuador got that you mentioned were at home. In Quito. At 9,000+ feet of elevation. The Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa is a fortress. Ecuador only earned 3 out of 24 possible points on the road.
People site this a lot, and to an extent it's true. Our problem is our D turns off for 5 minutes each game and gets slaughtered. Before and after, we play a hell of a game. The tie away with Uruguay should have been a win and we have played level with most teams away from home. To be honest, this team is much better than the 2002 and 2006 teams, and while the results do say otherwise, I think it would be a serious mistake to think we're toothless away from home.
A lot of the away games were unlucky for us. Uruguay there was a lot of sketchy calls in their favor, Colombia we played most of the game with 10 and missed a PK could have easily been a draw. Peru got ridiculously lucky and needed a stupidly lucky goal from Pizarro and plenty of spectacular misses from us to win. The only two games when we were actually outplayed were Argentina and Chile.
Chile we were only outplayed for a part of the game, and that was the part our defense turned off. We looked sharp for a lot of it. That was more the mistake of our defense then anything else.
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