Will Gianluca Lapadula return to Peru vs. Venezuela? The reasons for the striker to start on Sunday for the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers | Peruvian team Paolo Guerrero | NCZD DTCC | SPORT-TOTAL

The ball was ours, the result was not. We tried to partner, look for the bands, stretch to the rival, but the bow was not always far away. Peru tied 1-1 with Uruguay by the date 9 of the 2022 qualifiers. A tie with a bitter taste, Of those games in which you feel you lose two points and not add one, although there were good feelings. He fought every minute, in every corner of the field. He improved on defense, beyond the error by Anderson Santamaría that cost a goal. Now the debt was on the attack: just two shots on goal in 90 minutes. Little for a team that in the Copa America scored eleven goals in seven games. Only in both games against Brazil did he not score.

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without Gianluca Lapadula by accumulation of yellows, Paolo Guerrero commanded the national attack. “I’ve been playing, I haven’t had minutes, but I feel good. I’ve put aside my injury.”, Said the captain when he arrived in Lima. The ‘9’ returned to the courts in early August and has since only added 117 minutes (and scored a goal). It complicated the Uruguayans at all times, but it was noticed that it is not one hundred percent. Its only feature, according to the website specializing in statistics SofaScore, Was blocked. He had no more.

Of course, in the goal of Renato Tapia, it was Paolo who beat him up to Diego Godin to leave the ball behind the wheel. From the captain of the present to the captain of the future. Although it also had some plays in which it was exposed, like in the final minutes in which it bounced in a collision with a charrúa player after the bad pass of Yoshimar Yotún.

“As always he played only in attack. However, he is no longer the striker of the last qualifiers. It cost him the match against Uruguay.”, This is how the UnoxUno of Total Sport which qualified the Inter striker of Porto Alegre with 5 points.

No answers from Paolo, and with an attack that in the second half was lowering the intensity, the coach Ricardo Gareca send to the field the second and last striker available: Raúl Ruidíaz. The ‘Flea’, in the 11 minutes he was on the field, could do little or nothing. He didn’t even get a chance to finish and be that Major League Soccer scorer who isn’t in the national team.

In conclusion: Gianluca Lapadula was surprised.

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The story of the Italian-Peruvian with Peru is well known mega super archi: born in Turin, but Peruvian mother, he first opted for the ‘Azzurra’ and then fell in love with this white shirt – and so beautiful. He made his debut against Chile in November 2020, at the age of 30. He delighted us in Quito against Ecuador and ended up falling in love with us in the Copa America.

In Brazil, in his first big tournament with a national team, ‘Bambino’ was the best Bicolor player for CONMEBOL. He scored three goals and gave up two assists to get us into the top four of the tournament. with André Carrillo i Christian Cova they assembled a trident that was understood to even dance in the dressing room.

His diagonals in search of spaces or his movements to distract defenders were missed this Thursday at the National Stadium. Peru surprised him. To him, his goals and his hugs. Especially in those moments when we need it most: with five points in seven games, we are penultimate in the playoffs. We only beat Venezuela and so far we don’t know of any victories in Lima: we fell ahead Brazil, Argentina i Colombia.

Two strikers against Venezuela?

The only time Paolo Guerrero i Gianluca Lapadula they played together was in the fall against the Colombian team in June this year. The context in which the duo was developed was not at all favorable: they were in the field in minute 65, with the marker 3-0 against and a man less by the expulsion of Miguel Trauco.

Despite the few conclusions that could be drawn from that time, in front Venezuela it would not be at all unreasonable to think of an attack with our historic goal scorer and our fashionable striker. The Inter Porto Alegre can fight with the central, wear, and the Beneventos float around in search of space.

The position at the table compels. On Sunday, against Vinotinto, we need three points to keep dreaming about Qatar. There is still a long way to go, but the Peruvian team cannot stumble once again. Less in Lima, his home, his fort.

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