Lima Alliance vs. Sporting Cristal was the most anticipated match on the third day of the year competition Concluding the 2023 season as the faces were not seen in the first phase due to conflicts between the Victorian team and the Peruvian Football Federation over television rights.
After five months, both teams were able to fight the duel that the fans so longed for. For their part, the players played the match as if it were an untimely final, most notably Alianza’s Ricardo Lagos and Cristal’s Jesús Pretell, who starred in one of the most heated moments of the game, in which the referee even had to intervene with Joel Alarcon.
Both players were fighting over a ball in one of the gangs of the light blue faction when, after a few exchanges, they suddenly found themselves facing each other.