Brazil beat Peru 3-0 in World Cup qualifier in Salvador

Raul Ruidiaz, who has scored 12 goals in 12 games for Universitario this season, will start on the bench for Peru but could also feature at a few point.

In Montevideo, Uruguay gained revenge for their stormy Copa America quarter-final defeat to Chile earlier this year with a 3-0 win.

Farfan and his attack may have an easier task of scoring on Brazil with defender David Luiz serving a one-game ban for his two bookings against Argentina last week. Josef Martinez's lone strike was not enough for the still-pointless Vinotinto to avoid their worst start since the current round-robin format was introduced.

Brazil will be looking to return to winning ways when they face Peru in a World Cup 2018 qualifier at the Arena Fonte Nova in Salvador on Tuesday.

Bayern Munich forward Douglas Costa says he is getting closer to reproducing his club form for Brazil. The win was A Canarinha's third in a row in qualifiers against the Peruvians, all without conceding.

Dario Lezcano and Lucas Barrios got the goals which enabled Paraguay to come from behind and sink Bolivia in Asuncion.

Filipe Luis chipped it into the wide-open goal to score in the 77th after Costa lashed a left-footed shot that Penny deflected. Los Guaraníes, who had Pablo Aguilar sent off late on, have now won all nine of their home World Cup qualifiers against the Bolivians.

They sit fourth in the 10-team group, with the top four qualifying automatically for Russian Federation 2018 and the fifth-place side going into a playoff.

But the way Brazil manager Dunga explained it, his squad is progressing and building with each game.

With the win, they took their total to five points from four matches, with South America's marathon qualifying heading into a four month break after Tuesday's matches. Selecao and the recently on-fire Neymar are in pursuit of just their second victory in these early stages of qualifying, having fallen at Chile before holding off Venezuela and then drawing against rival Argentina last week.