The Peruvian team They added a second straight defeat and were in last place in the standings. However, this decline is not the same as the one against Brazil last September, but rather a completely different one in form. Facing one of the worst Chileans in the history of the South, Juan Reynosos Bicolor came to the defense and left the Monumental de Santiago defeated.
From the start it was known that the strategist’s idea was to take care of his goal and rely on counterattacks Luis Advíncula as a right winger, Andy Polo on the left and Paolo Guerrero as the only striker. However, the plan did not go as expected, as the Boca Juniors footballer hardly went to attack, the Universitario player had more fun covering his wing and finally the “Predator” struggled with the ball and focused more on making claims to make referee Wilmar Roldán.
But that’s not all: the times when the Peruvian team had the ball at the feet of “Canchita” Gonzales, Yoshimar Yotún and Pedro Aquino always ended in defeat against the Chilean midfielders, who applied great pressure and took advantage of this wing. with Ben Brereton, Diego Valdés and Alexis Sánchez.
What does Peru do with the ball?
Just like it happened Paraguay and with BrazilThe team seemed unfocused in attack. They didn’t even threaten the goal of goalkeeper Cortés, who didn’t have much to do in the 90 minutes. If Reynoso’s idea was to hold out for the first 45 minutes and kill the Chileans in the second half, things ended even worse with the substitutions of Carrillo or López.
The players were at no time able to unite, they were afraid to retreat at any time and hit Paolo Guerrero with balls. It wasn’t until the entry of Bryan Reyna that we saw a bit of the explosion that Reynoso wanted, but the match was already decided. Valdés had scored the first goal of the game and the Incas were reduced to a nervous breakdown. So much so that Marcos López ended up scoring an own goal while trying to clear a cross.
With this result, the Peruvian team not only slips to the bottom of the table (ninth, with 1 point), but it also worries everyone, because the game against Argentina will take place next Tuesday and Lionel Messi has already recovered, because they will make it Lima wants to get its fourth win and stay in the lead in the 2026 World Cup qualification.