At 15′, and after a long ball inside the area, Jesús Barco scored the goal that set off a Nacional who painted themselves pink. After the goal, the ‘Misilera’ did not back down, she played it with a lot of personality and won it with skill, even fairly if one wants to say so.
Fernando Gamboa’s board prevailed over the strategy of Guillermo Salas, who never found a way to penetrate the pink defense. The intimates have already gone two dates without winning and doubts appear at the gates of the classic against Universitario next Saturday.
Keys of the match
The Gamboa slate prevailed
In the run-up to the match, the favorite was undoubtedly Alianza Lima. It was the team called to have the ball, propose their game and take the three points. Based on that reality, Sport Boys had to neutralize the intimates, and take advantage of the few or many dangerous plays, and so it was. Fernando Gamboa planned his strategy in such a way that he counteracted any attack by those led by Guillermo Salas.
The rosé DT identified the midfield as Alianza’s playmaking zone and neutralized them. Although he gave them the ball (Alianza had more possession with 63%, compared to 37%), he cut the circuits so as not to generate danger or association. The intimates tried from above (long ball) and at ground level to penetrate the chalaco ‘padlock’, but they couldn’t even.
In pass accuracy, Alianza had 77%, while Boys had 68% with less ball possession, which shows that Gamboa won the strategy over Salas. He gave him the ball, but didn’t let him get comfortable or associate; for this reason, the intimate only had two shots on goal, against the six that Sport Boys had during the game. The pink slate prevailed and thus took away the unbeaten record of 19 games in Lima for League 1.
midfield won
Following Gamboa’s strategy, the key area of the game was going to be the middle of the field. Alianza had players with a good footing like Jairo Concha and recovery players like Jesús Castillo and Josepmir Ballón, so the ‘Misilera’ had to mark them so they wouldn’t associate easily. In this sense, Jesús Barcos, Juan Morales and Jorge Ríos shone and won the duel against their close friends.
‘Chicho’ Salas’ team ran out of ideas, Concha did not appear, he was well covered and pressured by Ríos and ‘Chengue’ Morales; the same as Castillo and Ballón, who did not have a good game. With the two rosés covering ’10’, Jesús Barco broke lines and stepped into the area and thus, after a long ball from Oliver Benítez, the winning goal arrived.
According to SofaScore, Concha hit 36 of 47 passes, completed just one cross in four attempts, five long balls out of eight and turned the ball over 19 times. Castillo, another accustomed to stepping on the area, did not and lost the ball six times. Ballón, meanwhile, won three of five games down, but lost the ball eight times.
changes did not work –
The intimates were down on the scoreboard for almost the entire game. At 15′ it was Barco’s goal and from that moment they tried to reverse the situation, but already in the second half, and seeing that it was getting uphill to enter the pink area, Guillermo Salas moved the bench in search of answers; however, he did not find the formula with the changes either.
At 64′, ‘Chicho’ sent Bryan Reyna for Jesús Castillo to give him more imbalance, but the winger didn’t have as many spaces, he was cornered by up to four players from the ‘Misilera’ and couldn’t contribute much. At 82 ′, he took out Chavez and put Aldair Rodríguez to accompany the other band, but the rosés were impenetrable.
Headache
If there is something that has been repeated since the season began in Alianza Lima, that is the injured list. For months, there is not a week in which the intimate ones do not have a meaningful player, between cotton or outside for time. This time, in addition to losing to Sport Boys, the concern is the state of Yordi Vílchez and Gabi Costa.
Especially the first, since Alianza lacks central defenders. Vílchez felt close to the end (82 ′) and asked for his change. The intimate defender withdrew from the game and when he left Nacional he was caught leaving on a crutch, limping on his left foot. The ‘3’, who replaced the injured Santiago García, is now a doubt for the classic. The same as Costa, who was also hit at discounts.
Came back after two months
His injury worried many fans at the beginning of May. Andrés Andrade was injured in practice just when he was the owner of Salas and driver of the team. He said a lot about the “Rifle” injury, that perhaps he would be out of the field for a long time, but after two months he made his expected comeback, although not in the way he would have wanted.
The Colombian entered discounts for Costa, played 10 ‘and only made five passes, did not finish off the goal. It will be difficult for the ‘Rifle’ to resume the rhythm he left off, but for Salas it is already good news to have him back in the activity. This yes, of face to the classic, he still is not to be headline.
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