DT Award: Who was the best Alianza player to win the Opening Tournament?

Alianza Lima won the Opening Tournament with solidity and solvency. He did it with an eight-point advantage and still with two days to go before the first tournament of the year ends. Even with a WO on the first day against Cristal.

The squad of the intimate team is by far the best in Peruvian soccer. Many names, many variants and a head like Chicho Salas who has known how to make decisions to direct the group towards the same goals.

They have already broken the streak of 30 games without winning in the Copa Libertadores, they have already won the Apertura Tournament. Now he continues to be able to advance to the round in the continental tournament and repeat the task in the Closing Tournament to celebrate the three-time championship at the end of the year.

Faced with so much wealth, Deporte Total answers two questions that every football lover asks:

1.- Who was the best footballer of Alianza Lima in the Opening Tournament?

2.- Who is the best foreigner on the team?

michael villegas

1.

Away, Carlos Zambrano. Hierarchy is like a tattoo: it’s on your skin wherever you go. Not in vain Riquelme -that is, Boca- wanted to retain him. Even in the discrete matches of Alianza -especially the last ones, before Binacional-, León was absolutely regular, attentive at the crossroads, sure of the mark and leader in that invisible virtue that is to improve the one who plays next to him: at times , Santiago García or even Pablo Miguez seemed like the real Kaiser. On top of that, he won the classic. 7.5 average points.

2.

The best foreigner in the Apertura is Pablo Sabbag. You have three scarce conditions for the midfielder: a size that makes him unattainable in the air, a projection that even gives him chances for the Colombian team, and a voracity that no attacker has in League 1: he attacks the area as if there would be a steak in there and he wouldn’t have lunch for a week. Perhaps that verticality takes away from the game, association, but it is a luxury to have a 9 like that.

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Jason Curi Chang

1.

In the midst of the fireworks by Zambrano, Sabbag and Andrade, this Alianza Lima winner of the Apertura has a cover up that, in my eyes, deserves all the recognition: Jesús Castillo Peña. He is not youthful and does not record calls to the Peruvian team. He is 27 years old and has a past in Cantolao. National journalism’s fault for noticing this all-terrain flyer and ‘four lungs’ that arrived in La Victoria this year. Now we will ask Reynoso in La Videna, without a doubt. He has played half as many minutes (528, according to Soccerway) as Ricardo Lagos, the one who played the most (1,004) in the Apertura, but he steps on the field with authority when he is in the intimate midfielder. He has an average rating of 6.5 on SofaScore in his games with the Blue and Whites. And, for the moment, Transfermarkt rates it at 450 thousand euros.

2.

Pablo Sabbag. Lefty, goalscorer and good friend. The best foreigner with the best goal of the Apertura.

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“The best was Sabbag. Because of his goals and his influence on the game. Silver medals: Andrade and Barcos”

Pedro Ortiz Bisso

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Felipe Casapia Coello

1.

Carlos Zambrano. He fulfilled the expectations generated by his return on time, in force, a benchmark for the defense and decisive in games where the lead could not be effective. Despite some lackluster performances, he was constantly influential in the results obtained by Guillermo Salas’s team in the championship.

2.

Pablo Sabbag. He arrived as a foreign reinforcement that few blue and white fans knew about. Now they place him as a daring scorer and protagonist who is right in the head. Regardless of whether he likes it or the figures, which also favor him, he is Alianza’s most decisive player in the first half of the season.

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Marco Quilca Leon

1.

Carlos Zambrano. Despite the fact that he played eight games, whether due to suspension or technical decision, the defender has shown all his hierarchy in the local tournament. Whether playing with Santiago García, Pablo Miguez or Yordi Vílchez himself, the ‘Kaiser’ was in charge of ordering the Victorian defense and making it the least beaten in the tournament: 12 goals against, and only two of them conceived at home. As a plus: he scored a double to give him a crucial victory against Municipal a couple of weeks ago.

2.

Andres Andrade. He struggled at the beginning, but once he got into the rhythm of the competition, the Colombian was the one man orchestra in Chicho Salas’s team. Backed up by Josepmir Ballon and Jesús Castillo in the middle, the ‘Rifle’ was free to make the intimate team play and also gave himself time to score or assist me.

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Louis Baptist

1.

Andrés Andrade takes the podium as the main figure of Alianza Lima. Two dates from the end of the opening tournament, the Colombian midfielder is the one who manages the times in the middle of the playing field. Of course, by complementing himself with players like Jesús Castillo and Bryan Reyna, he has gradually enriched the collective game that Guillermo Salas’ team lacks at times.

2.

Without a doubt, it is a great success for the leadership of Alianza Lima to have hired Andrés Andrade. At 34 years of age, the Colombian born in the city of Cali seeks to continue shining his good game and why not, to be taken into account by the Colombian team again for the next friendly duels.

Christian Cruz Valdivia

1.

To be the best you have to play and have them play and there are several of those on the squad. Andrés Andrade is the first, Jesús Castillo is another. Hernán Barcos is perhaps the one who does it best, but for that to happen, everything comes from the security provided by Carlos Zambrano. The ‘Kaiser’ gives Alianza the solvency that each one worries about their own and he is in charge of pushing from behind. Between Zambrano and Andrade, who has shown that he cannot play alongside Cueva, are the best of this Alianza, with the Peruvian one step ahead.

2.

Under the same idea of ​​a good game, Andrés Andrade is the one who gives Alianza the football he needs. Absent in recent dates, perhaps he has some points left and Pablo Sabbag’s goals remain more in the retina. The good thing is that two large reinforcements arrived from Colombia, and both have complied.

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