Brazil came from behind to beat Uruguay 2-1 in a World Cup qualifier on Wednesday but were upstaged by Paraguay and Ecuador who both went on scoring spre-es.

Luis Fabiano scored bo-th goals as Brazil overcame their smaller neighbours in Sao Paulo. Paraguay won 3-0 in Chile to go top of the South American qualifying group and Ecuador, who conceded five goals in each of their last two games, beat Peru 5-1 to pick up their first points.

With four of the 18 roun-ds of matches played, Para-guay lead with 10 points followed by Argentina (9), Brazil and Colombia (8), Venezuela (6), Uruguay and Chile (4), Ecuador (3), Peru (2) and Bolivia (1).

The top four qualify directly for South Africa in 2010 and the fifth play off against the fourth-placed team from the CONCACAF zone.