André Carrillo: a goal and an assist to regain confidence one month before the Qualifiers

A great concern was being generated in the peruvian national team. The name of Andre Carrillo began to generate uncertainty. The ‘Culebra’, from one moment to another, ceased to be a starter at Al Hilal. Moreover, he did not have the minutes expected in the Club World Cup. However, the change in coach made the Blanquirroja’s most unbalanced player recover ground a month before the Qatar 2022 Qualifying.

The Club World Cup left a big surprise because when everyone thought that Andre Carrillo was going to have a leading role in Al Hilal, he was relegated from the starting eleven.

Leonardo Jardim, coach at that time of Al Hilal, little by little left André Carrillo aside. The injury he suffered in October 2021 and his constant calls to the Peruvian team seem to have bothered the strategist.

This season was not being the best for Andre Carrillo. He was not only sidelined in the important games of the Club World Cuptoo Leonardo Jardimweeks ago, decided to leave him out of the official list for the final of the Champions of Asia.

In this tournament each team was allowed to have 3 foreigners. The coach opted for Moussa Marega, Matheus Pereira and Bafétimbi Gomis. Happily, Al-Hilal ended up winning the title and the absence of Andre Carrillo went through lukewarm water.

With the signing of the Nigerian Odion Ighalothings began to change in the Al-Hilal. Leonardo Jardim began to give priority to the former Manchester United player who was in charge of leading the Saudi team’s attack. As extremes they went Al Dawsari and Marega. Andre Carrillo he was already losing ground.

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-NEEDED CHANGE-

Ended on Club World Cupthe leaders of Al-Hilal they were not satisfied with the team’s results. After finishing in fourth place, they decided to tell the link of Leonardo Jardim. In his replacement they brought back the Argentine Ramon Diaz.

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— Pass Filtered (@pasefiltradope) February 17, 2022

???????? Andre Carrillo vs. Al-Shabab:
• 1 goal
• 1 assist
• 91% accurate passes
• 2 key passes
• 6/8 accurate long passes
• 1 great occasion created
• 8.4 SofaScore note pic.twitter.com/IOG6AbpCt1
– SofaScore Latin America (@SofaScoreLA) February 17, 2022

The ‘Culebra’ gained the confidence of the new coach and responded in the best way on the field. Andre Carrillo it was a real headache for the defenders of Al Shabab. At 18 minutes into the first half, he opened the scoring after a great assist for Ighalo.

André Carrillo crowned a superb day with a great goal.

From now on, André Carrillo has 5 games where he could play. In the Peruvian team, they hope that the striker will arrive at the matches against Uruguay and Paraguay motivated and with many minutes played.