Julio César Uribe analyzed Peru's win over Paraguay and highlighted the key to the playoff for Qatar 2022

The Peruvian national team celebrated the victory against Paraguay in the last date of the South American Qualifiers. It was a match that he must win to ensure his access to the pre-World Cup playoff in Qatar 2022 and thus avoid relying on other results, something he finally achieved. In that sense, Julio César Uribe analyzed this victory and highlighted four players in the 'bicolor'.

He first summarized what the national team game was like and described Gianluca Lapadula's goal as a work of art. “I summarize it in four points. The first one went out to attack. The second thing is that he was very punctual in the way he attacked, the ways they referenced the balls behind the backs of the central defenders, and the way he defended. The 1 to 0 was never at risk that we found him very soon with an excellent play where they come out playing from behind, 5 passes with one from another match and another Christian championship, exceptional, external instep to the back of the central and Lapadula that remains for his concrete unskilled profile despite the brand that had it very close. The goal is to put it in a frame,” he said in an interview for GOLPERU.

In addition, as was well said above, he highlighted some players, who shone above the rest and had a great performance against 'Albirroja'. “You always have to look to hit first and Peru hit first. There was an impeccable match on a tactical level but with 4 players with superlative performance: Cueva, Tapia, Lapadula and Callens. The others played well too, but the others made a difference in the match,” commented the national coach.

And it is that 'Aladdin' was at a spectacular level. His surgical and class pass for 'Lapa' summed up what his performance was like. He left several flashes of his technical qualities and drove the Paraguayans crazy, who could not stop him and only through fouls (5), stopped him.

On the other hand, Uribe gave his opinion on Pedro Gallese's tranquility in the Peruvian arch, despite the fact that he came close to seeing his fence beaten after a powerful shot by Sebastián Ferreira after a mistake by Yoshimar Yotún in the start. “Paraguay had a careful administration of the ball, but without depth to score the goal. This must have been Pedro Gallese's most comfortable match. A mistake in the start could have meant a draw and the match would have been put where we didn't deserve it. Apart from that mistake, Peru was impeccable and 2-0 is more than deserved,” declared the one who was a World Cup player with Peru in Spain 1982.

WORK OF RICARDO GARECA

Another theme he touched on was the great work that Ricardo Gareca has done with the 'bicolor', which he can take to his second World Cup in a row. “Ricardo Gareca has given him what I think he has sustained for 7 years, which is fundamental, protection and trust. These 3 aspects make the player flow, engage, rather than with the coach with his country, his profession and his family. Ricardo had impeccable leadership,” he said.

KEY MOMENT IN PLAYOFFS

Finally, he made clear the key moment of the 'white-red' so that he could get into the repechage: the victory against Colombia in Barranquilla. “To always believe in what they have done before, that is vertebral. People may believe, some may doubt, etc. But as long as you believe, the group creates and works based on what joy meant, that is called conviction, and this nobody can break it. The key victory was in Barranquilla. Colombia dominated the game, it deserved. One attack and Peru won 1 to 0″, he added.

That result against the 'coffee growers' ended up being a sending of souls for a Peruvian squad. The locals attacked constantly throughout most of the match, but they were not fine in the definition. However, a counterattack originated by Christian Cueva caused the deployment in the attack of Edison Flores to put the 1 to 0 in a memorable result.

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