The ‘sele’ presented a renewed ’11’ with different variants and great expectations, such as the return of Gianluca Lapadula and the debut of Piero Quispe, but as the minutes passed, all the hope faded. The bicolor couldn’t find a clear game, neither with the ball on the ground, nor with long balls, and the court didn’t help either. And at 20 ‘, a bad anticipation by Carlos Zambrano, left Henry Vaca with the ball and before a passive mark by Alexander Callens, he took a bomb to make it 1-0. Although the white and red team had a better one for the second half, it was not effective and with another oversight by the central defense, Ramiro Vaca extended the score at 87’, leaving us in a bad situation in every sense.
Keys to the match
Problem at the back with the rear
Before the game, the Carlos Zambrano-Alexander Callens defense gave good feelings and confidence. They were two centre-backs who had already played together in the final stretch of the last qualifying round, so security at the back could be a point in their favor against Bolivia; However, both had one of their weakest games with the ‘sele’, being badly saved in both goals, the ‘Kaiser’ in the first; Alex, in the second.
Zambrano made a mistake that ended up paying dearly at 1-0. The ‘Kaiser’ had a bad anticipation, the ball passed him and left Henry Vaca unmarked. The Bolivian entered the area and faced with Callens’ passive marking, he took a powerful shot for Gallese. While at 2-0, the ’22’ of the bicolor did not execute the offside trap and Arrascaita went straight to the goal, waited for the company of his teammates and again faced with a weak Callens, he passed it to Ramiro Vaca for the goal.
It cost the younger ones
Reynoso’s bet for this match was to line up three of the most outstanding players in League 1 in attack: Piero Quispe on the hook, Franco Zanelatto and Joao Grimaldo, on the wings. The coach of the team appealed to new blood from the start to try to have greater revolution and aggressiveness in the attack, but it was difficult for the three to get into the game, and above all to acclimatize to the height of La Paz.
The first half started very discreetly for the three young people, but little by little they tried to show themselves. Quispe asking for the ball, trying to associate and triangulate, Zanelatto looking for spaces to shoot into the void and Grimaldo unbalancing in one on one. In the end, the cream midfielder was the only one of them who ended up playing the entire game; The intimate winger was changed at 57′ and the light blue player at 69′.
The changes did not work
With 1-0 down, Reynoso looked for answers on the bench, but did not end up achieving what he wanted, changing the result. ‘Cabezón’ brought out players to change the formation and at times send a line of three, which didn’t work either. The first two variants of him reached 57 ‘: Paolo Guerrero for Gianluca Lapadula and Bryan Reyna for Franco Zanelatto. After that, he brought in Luis Advíncula for Joao Grimaldo and Sergio Peña for Marcos López, and in the end he put Edison Flores for Aldo Corzo to take a risk.
Although Reyna had some quick steps and a shot on goal, as well as a penalty attempt that the VAR ruled out, as did Paolo with a blocked shot, in short the changes did not work as they were unable to reverse the score. Advíncula dared with a cross shot, but Vizcarra caught it without complications. While Flores, coming in at the end, could do little or nothing, and Peña had an inconsequential performance.
We remain unmarked
After four rounds, Peru was able to break that terrible streak of not fearing a shot on goal, with two shots on goal against Bolivia, but deep down, we still haven’t scored a goal in this eliminatory process. Before the end of the first half, López took a cross and Gianluca Lapadula finished with a header, but he did not give it direction and the ball went to the middle for Vizcarra’s ease, this was the first shot on goal for the team in all the Qualifiers. but little or nothing helped.
While Bryan Reyna could not be effective in front of goal and after a great association play that ended with Piero Quispe’s pass, the Alianza Lima winger took a shot at Vizcarra’s body. Beyond leaving those negative numbers behind, the pending challenge is to break the nets and score a goal in these qualifying rounds.
You can’t see his hand
Beyond the fact that the broadcast captured Juan Reynoso with a blackboard taking notes, in all his ‘era’ it is still not possible to decipher what Peru is playing. The team stood out at the time for its defensive block against Paraguay and Brazil, against Bolivia that solidity was not seen at the back, our centre-backs were very insecure and with a poor performance as a group. Likewise, the outstanding debt is still high, since we have not scored until now (yes, we have already recorded shots on goal, two).
The numbers are negative for Juan Reynoso and what has to happen for the team to have a change. For now, ‘Cabezón’ has become the first coach in Peru’s history to record five consecutive games without scoring in Qualifiers and the first coach in our country to accumulate four consecutive losses without scoring. Not only that, the ‘sele’ is the first in Conmebol to start a process without scoring a single goal in its first five games.
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