Valera spoils the cream business: third red in the year that cost him the result against Corinthians | CHRONICLE

It was not a good game for the creams, but the goalless draw was a great result for their interests, since next week the take home closes. He endured with a huge Williams Riveros and a bustling Rodrigo Ureña and a sure goalkeeper Diego Romero -debut at international level-, but he did not generate before the passivity of Piero Quispe and how disconnected Luis Urruti and Alex Valera were.

And he faced the verticality and already recognized talent of all Brazilian teams, which added the intensity and mobility of a very youthful eleven -with an average age of 23-. Pedro, 17, became a figure, Biro (19) won the left wing and Adson, 22, took over the midfield.

And there was nothing left but to fight for the creams, because they never found their game to generate. And he got the result based on that until ‘Timao’ brought in experienced players like Renato Augusto and Ángel Romero. There he took full control of the match, which was favored by the red card for Alex Valera.

And he knew how to transfer it to the goal via Felipe Augusto, a 19-year-old striker whom Riveros had controlled, but this time he found a loose ball to score in the 79th minute.

—A foolish expulsion—

When Valera confuses impetus with unnecessary aggressiveness, everything goes wrong for the attacker. In an inconsequential play in the Corinthians defensive zone, the ‘9’ hit an iron that cost him the expulsion after a VAR call.

Valera left the creams with 10 for the last twenty minutes of the game, which ruined the intentions of the Peruvian team. Just when Fossati was about to make the offensive changes to try for victory.

It is the attacker’s third expulsion of the year, after the ones he saw against Boys and Muni. Remember that he started the year without playing the tournament because he was penalized for a red card against Barcelona in Ecuador last year.

Six minutes after the red card came the goal from Corinthians. Hopes of good results disappeared with each play in which the creams found no one in attack, with Edison Flores fighting alone against the entire defense.

And the story could be different if in the last play of the game Horacio Calcaterra scored the equalizer with a ball he found in the Brazilian area. It did not happen and the lament was general.

It is a 180-minute match and the rematch will be on Tuesday at the Monumental. With their people, with the return of Carvallo and Pérez Guedes, but without Valera, the creams must come back against Corinthians, who may come with their starters.