Why Quispe at the wheel or next to Valera? What would Edison Flores play in Fossati’s ‘U’ | League 1 Betsson

“Many years have passed since the last championship, but I don’t carry that backpack. The group must demonstrate, match by match, what it wants. This is a new stage, a good one, and the pressure is to carry out each match to reach the goal “pointed out the ‘Orejas’ at a press conference.

Flores would be the only cream reinforcement with a view to the Clausura. The national team -who was with the Peruvian delegation on the tour of Asia for the friendlies against South Korea and Japan- His main objective will be to be a fundamental piece and help his team win the second tournament of the year to fight for the national title that they have not won since 2013.

Although Edison’s current situation -beyond the romanticism of his return and the hierarchy that he can impose as a World Cup player- is not exciting. In fact, the last time he played 90 minutes was in September of last year, in his team’s defeat against Mazatlán. This year, between injuries and a technical decision, he only participated in five commitments.

“He returned and it was difficult for him to enter the dynamics of the team. Unfortunately, the opportunity to have more minutes could not be given and knowing his quality, we know that he requires much more minutes of play, opportunities and he was hardly going to have it in Atlas and, therefore, we decided to make this decision together (about his return to university). He accepts that for different reasons the situations did not occur, he recognizes and is going to fight for a new opportunity “explained José Riestra, president of the red and black club, in an interview with RPP.

Just as he did in 2014, after playing for Villarreal B in Spain, the ‘Orejas’ returns home. Today, at the age of 29, more mature, experienced, and with the only goal of ending the title drought for the cream team. The “Centennial Plan” has already started in the U with this incorporation. The question that every fan asks himself now is: what is he going to play? Who will he replace? Here are some options:

Instead of Piero Quispe or Calcaterra

Bearing in mind that Jorge Fossati’s U plays with three central defenders, two wingers, three midfielders on the inside and two forwards; Edison Flores could take the place of one of the interiors, just as he did at some point in the Peruvian team to make up for the absence of Yoshimar Yotun either Christian Cave.

In that sense, it is likely to replace Horacio Calcaterra (or Piero Quispe) and accompany Rodrigo Urena and Martin Perez Guedes in the medullary sector of the cream field.

begins by saying Andrea Vela, a journalist for Soccer in America and N Deportes.

For Vela it is very difficult to think that Fossati is going to change the system and adapt it to ‘Orejas’. On the contrary, he will try to get the newcomer to join a scheme that has already been worked on and that, in a certain way, has given results. , he finishes.

The companion that Valera needs?

he pointed Edison Flores back in 2012, when he played for Villarreal B. He knows that position very well, in Universitario he has also known how to play there, along with ‘9’ and with freedom of movement. And it is not unreasonable to think that Fossati can use him there, next to the striker Alex Valera.

“It is a very big question because of how the ‘U’ is playing. In fact, he already played there.”analyzes Carlos Arrunategui, a press man who has followed the day-to-day life of the cream cast for many years.

Taking into account that neither Emanuel Herrera or Luis Urruti They have been regular accompanying Valera -neither is José Rivera, who is extreme, but plays inside-, Flores could be a kind of link between the flyers and the scorer of the cream team in this 2023.

Is there a chance to go as a winger?

If there is something in which the two specialists consulted agree, it is that it is very difficult for Jorge Fossati change your scheme even though Edison Flores is the star reinforcement. The ‘Orejas’ has almost always played as a winger, on the outside. At Atlas he was a left winger in a 4-4-2.

If Fossati is encouraged to leave the 3-5-2 / 5-3-2, the ‘Orejas’ could play on the outside. But that scenario seems very distant. Even Andy Pole He had to convert to winger-midfielder with a lot of arrival in the area, and José Rivera stopped being a winger and gaining speed on the wings to be a second striker when it was his turn to play.

We will see how the coach uses Edison now that he needs to win the Clausura or be up in the accumulated hope that Alianza will not win the tournament because otherwise he would be national champion. But also because in Ate they are sure that a team must be built based on the World Cup midfielder thinking about the centenary of the club.