Scoring in a classic: this is how two referents from Universitario and Alianza experienced it

The Peruvian soccer classic is played and there is only one known way to play the match: to win. The paths are chosen by each one, but both University of Sports What Lima Alliance They will go to the Monumental Stadium (3:00 pm, live on Movistar Deportes) for those three points that will make half the country happy.

After the blow caused by the pandemic, the classic will once again have an audience in the stands -in 2021 it was played behind closed doors at the National Stadium-, and there will be more than 55,000 creams that will support their colors.

The obligation is to win. For the locals, with 16 points, so as not to lose track of the leader Cienciano (21), while the Blue and Whites to recover ground in the Apertura of League 1 since today with just 8 points they are in the bottom part of the table, to thirteen of the cusqueños.

But the classic is a game apart where any precedent can be set aside. Universitario knows that in the last classic at the Monumental -March 2020- they beat an Alianza 2-0 that arrived with a full number of figures -we already know how that season ended-. Alianza also knows it, last year they won the duel with 10 men with a goal from Axel Moyano on the hour. In the field, what dictates is what he does every eleventh.

And this is how two ex-football players who are protagonists in the classics dictate it. Jorge Amado Nunes, cream idol, enjoyed them in the 90s -including a punch against Kopriva-, and scored a goal in 1994. “”, the Paraguayan tells us at the beginning.

Both clubs will go out to deliver everything on the field. “The claw is important for the team. The classic is a very emotional match and that comes out with the claw”, Jorge Amado graphs from Asunción in the brief communication that we established.

On the intimate side you also live from the same gorma. “It is a separate championship. It’s special regardless of how they are, although both come from winning and that’s important”, says Walter Ibañez, a Uruguayan who wore the blue and white shirt between 2012 and 2014. As a good Uruguayan, he knows what to put on in each match. “Putting your heart is giving everything. It’s playing poking. The one who pushes the most is the one who can take the result”, says ‘Colo’, who became captain of the blue and white team.

“Sometimes in the classics attitude weighs more than playing well and you are left with the satisfaction of making half the country happy,” adds Ibáñez. “Football is about moments and they are not very easy at times. Let’s hope it goes well for him and playing at home he can achieve a victory”, adds Nunes.

Both have known how to celebrate against the classic rival. Jorge Amado remembers one from 1994, while Ibáñez one in 2012 in Miami and another in the Nacional in 2014. And there is nothing better in a classic than scoring against the usual rival. “Scoring a goal is something else, we are talking about the essence of football against your greatest rival. You are giving joy to your people and if the result is satisfactory, it is the greatest happiness”, he tells us.

Meanwhile, the Uruguayan emphasizes that he could only score in friendlies, but “it’s a classic just the same,” he tells us. “There are no friendlies in the classics and I had the opportunity to score in my first year, in Miami and the other with a header in a completely packed National. The frame showed the seriousness of the match and that is beautiful”, he recalls.

This is how the classics were played, are played and will be played. This afternoon the people who follow Peruvian soccer will be able to enjoy a long-awaited duel and we hope that it will be up to the task, from what happens on the field to what happens in the stands and surroundings.