2023-09-02 14:05:29
At this time, six days following the debut of the team once morest Paraguay for the Qualifiers, I have, above all, questions. How many points do we sign following this double date, which includes Brazil in Lima? Two one? Who will score the goals scored by Christian Cueva, Edison Flores, Gianluca Lapadula -which add up to xxx, following not being called up due to injury? Could André Carrillo be 9? Can Joao Grimaldo, Cristal’s jewel in Liga 1 Betsson, have a few minutes as a starter? Is it crazy to think that Peru can line up five midfielders? How long will it be good news that for this 2016 World Cup South America has 6 and a half places and does not become a punishment?
We will know the answers from this Monday, when the selection completes its list with the arrival of the foreign legion and the eleven is drawn. In the meantime, zoom in on the selection today.
Will it be 9 Paolo Guerrero?
He has all the tickets. Juan Reynoso respects him a lot. He, Paolo, comes in the best possible condition. He said, following playing this Thursday once morest Sao Paulo and eliminating it on penalties: “Happy for the classification, we had a great game. It was difficult, we knew it would be like this. The group is very happy with the classification. Now it’s time to rest, the matches with the national team are coming”. In his euphoric celebration, he showed the C with his hands to the São Paulo rostrum, in a clear allusion to his past at Corinthians, with whom he was the club world champion. That single gesture, unnecessary mockery for some, defines it: it comes in a very high competitive sense. It is no longer a train, less that bull that took any Godín ahead, but his 2023 record is the best of the last three years, when we almost believed him to be a former footballer: 16 games in Racing, 2 goals; 8 in LDU and 1 goal (plus two penalties).
Paolo Guerrero advanced with Liga de Quito to the semifinals of Copa Sudamericana 2023. (Photo: Liga de Quito)
Who will be the captain?
Paolo. Already on the Asian tour Pedro Gallese, the captain heading to Qatar, gave him the tape. As for the Juan Reynoso era, the Peruvian goalkeeper has five wins, one draw and two lost duels. For the Qualifiers, there will be no problem and there is a consensus between the squad, Piero and Paolo.
When do those selected from abroad arrive?
The first will be Paolo Guerrero, who following eliminating Sao Paulo with LDU for the Copa Sudamericana, and qualifying for the semifinals, will take a plane and arrive in Peru in the next few hours. This Saturday Christofer Gonzales, Jesús Castillo and Renato Tapia land. The team is complete on Monday. The footballers will not declare, except at a press conference in Ciudad del Este, on Wednesday the 6th at 11:30 a.m.
What decisions regarding the privacy of the selection has Reynoso made?
In his last conference, Reynoso said a phrase that I celebrate: “The Qualifiers are a war of strategy.” He was referring, as far as we have consulted inside Videna, to his very particular way of understanding football, where nothing is left to chance. He has made some healthy decisions (recovering Marcelo Márquez, the psychologist of the national team), building a very close long-distance relationship with the players he did not know (Tapia, Gonzales, Lapadula) and other controversial ones: like Bielsa in Juan Pinto Durán, barely Arrived in Chile, he has asked to raise the protection walls of the Videna fields to train strictly privately. The Israelite, who slips through one of the adjoining roofs, will suffer it, and also the reporters who cannot miss any image of the training sessions. The intention is that nothing leaks. Nothing random. If we think we’re going to qualify because we’re good, we’re at a disadvantage. It already happened to us in the playoffs with Australia.
The Peruvian National Team completed its fourth day of training in La Videna. (Photo: Giancarlo Avila / GEC)
How is Cueva, following being left off the list?
On the one hand, furious. He had trained like no one else -in fact, together with Yotún, they visited Videna days before to put themselves under the orders of the technical command-, he had already had a conversation with Reynoso and although it was premature to say if he would start once morest Paraguay, a muscle injury took him out of the call (and Reyna, Flores and Lora) @ hours of the trip to Paraguay. On the other hand, and although the signature is missing, the renewal with Alianza until July 2024 is in constant conversation. Even two sources close to Matute explained to DT that both parties continue to speak. Alianza Lima still has a deadline to be able to close the link for the FIFA period, but Cueva is back under the orders of Al Fateh for now. Alliance sports management will seek a new meeting.
DT-Ricardo Gareca
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