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Uruguay (0): Carini,Tais, Montero, Lembo,
Rodríguez, Pablo García, Gigou, O'neill, Alvaro "El Chino"
Recoba, Olivera, Magallanes.
DT: Daniel Passarella.
Perú (0): Johny Vegas, Jorge Soto,
Miguel Rebosio, Juan Pajuelo, Percy Olivares, Juan Jayo, Marko Ciurlizza,
Roger Serrano, Nolberto Solano, Roberto Palacios, Claudio Pizarro.
DT: Francisco Maturana.
Uruguay Subs: Zalayeta x Gigou, Coelho x Recoba
Peru Subs: Erick Torres x Roger Serrano
Stadium: Centenario in Uruguay
Attendance: 62,000 |
| Uruguay and Peru opened up the match valid for
the sixth date of the South American World Cup 2002 Pre-Qualifiers. Uruguay
started the match with an intensive offensive schema, whereas PERU played
an-all-out-defense TACTIC. Uruguay played beautifully getting several goal
opportunities early into the match, 4 shots within the 1st 10 minutes of
the match. People at the famous Centenario Stadium smelled the goal coming.
As the 1st half moved forward, Uruguay had still not able to break the
parity. Peruvian goalie Jhonny Vega became the most hated man in the Stadium,
especially when he stopped Uruguayan forward Magallanes on a one on one
situation, and blocked a sharp mortal shot from "EL CHINO" Recoba as well
as a mid-range shot by O'neill. Miguel Rebosio and Juan Pajuelo stood up
very high in the air game and headed the balls out consistently. |
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| Nearly by miracle, the score stayed intact, both
teams walked off the field to signal the end of the 1st half. Passarella
and Maturana had to make serveral changes. Thes second half began with
the same characteristics, Uruguay launching the artillery and Peru making
an 11th man stand at the goal line sort-of. Minutes passed by, slowly but
noticeable, Peru began to get confident as Uruguayan forwards began making
desperate moves; what this do was to create a chaotic climate among the
local team. Peru began to grab the ball more often, BUT HEY, still did
not played the same old PERUVIAN soccer. The game finally ended. I think
it was a deserving score, although i would have substituted Juan Jayo instead
of taking Roger Serrano off, but who knows apparently Roger had suffered
a wound. Neverthelss, i totally disagreed with Pacho's desicion, hopefully
he is not getting pressured from the Peruvian Federation so that he can
start only those that the Federation wants. |
In
my own analysis, PERU played misserably, horrible, they deserved to lose,
they played to tie, it sucks if you are on the opposite side of the field,
it's so damn frustating i would say. BUT HEY, who said i didn't like the
way PERU played, on the contrary, I love the way they played, WHY? but
you tell me why play nice "like always" to end up losing....is not
that our history?..I am just sick and tired fo losing so much, i don't
care how beautiful we play, i want to win, you can critisize the team all
you want but i love the wya Maturana figures out the tactics as visitans,
but not as local..Well, welll...well too bad for Uruguayans that were not
able to score, i have to admit it, URUGUAY looks good, but they most know
how to score even if their rival is playing to tie, if Pasarella knows
so much soccer, how come he didn't realized and implemented a formula during
the game and not wait until the end of the game to make comments such as
"Peru did not played their history".....I am sure there are ways of playing
a team like PERU, if there weren't any, don't you think other teams would
have used the same tactics?:)*S*
That's all i have to say, until then, email
me and
let's go Peru, THEY MUST BEAT AT LEAST 3-5
Goals against Venezuela.....they MUST.
Miguel |