The closing of quotas for the South American Cup 2024 It will have a movie ending. Three clubs are deciding on the last ticket to the competition, including Scientist, who will not only have to win the duel they have scheduled against Sport Boys, they will also have to wait for the results of Cusco FC against César Vallejo to know if they agree or not. With this panorama, Óscar Ibáñez, coach of ‘Papá’, admitted that it will not be easy to qualify for the international competition, but that they will go for it anyway.
“Qualifying for the Copa Sudamericana is complicated, but we are going to try“, said the strategist in dialogue with RPP. However, it wasn’t the only thing she talked about. At the moment, Universitario de Deportes is the club with the best chance of winning the Clausura Tournament, a fact that the former national goalkeeper hopes will happen: “Of course I want Universitario to win, it will be a very even final. But first I want Cienciano to win”.
Regarding the victory they had last Sunday and that complicated the ambitions of the Rimenses for the Clausura title, he added: “We think about the game against Sporting Cristal, we focus on ourselves, to win it”. However, a topic that he could not leave aside was the present of the Peruvian National Team and the words that Juan Reynoso had about the Peruvian tournament. “I think Juan was referring to the younger ones who are starting out. And it is true that the selection rhythm is different from that of the local tournament“, accurate.
“I agree that Juan is the most capable coach. Are moments. The team is ready to rise. Players have to recover. […] The team has a squad to go out. It is not an unrelated situation, at this point it has the same amount of points that we got in the previous round”, he concluded.
The fight for the last place
The clubs that are fighting for the last place for the Copa Sudamericana are Cusco FC, César Vallejo and Cienciano, since Deportivo Garcilaso, even if it loses its match against Alianza Lima, by score and goal difference, has assured its classification. In the case of the first two, if the Cusco team wins, they would add 53 points and remain in the classification. In the event that the ‘Poets’ win, they would add 51 points and be in eighth place (since Garcilaso has a greater goal difference).
But, in the event that both tie, they would give Cienciano a chance to go up. Of course, for ‘Papá’ to take over the last spot for the international competition, he will have to win the duel he has agreed upon against Sport Boys in Callao with two more goals, since he currently has 48 points in the Accumulated and one goal difference of -3, while Cusco FC’s is -1. Only under that scenario could I qualify.
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