Which coach has everything in his favor to win the Betsson League 1 Clausura? | INFOGRAPHIC

Seen from the stands, the Closing Tournament of the Betsson League 1 will be defined by details, subtle goals, brief decisions that will be born in the heads of the coaches, subject to the imprint of the star who best interprets them. Also, of course, due to the irregular campaign of the big three, Cristal, the ‘U’, Alianza – in order of the table – who can turn around in Bernal with a great goal in discounts, but face their classic in a full stadium and being absolutely dominated – the light blue ones versus the cream ones; or go to Cusco twice and draw heroic draws, but play a horrible game in Matute without what is preached – playing well – having changed even two centimeters. Or kick the goal 20 times and score just one goal. | News League 1 Betsson.

It will be defined, in other words, by what its technicians, Tiago Nunes, Jorge Fossati and Mauricio Larriera finally propose. Whoever makes the least mistake will be champion.

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Made in the new Brazilian school that combines play with physicality, Tiago is, essentially, an obsessive technician who studies the rival at dawn, who takes care of the size of the grass, who publishes stories at night and how he can bring together a group , yours, around a cause. His sensitivity was tested in the controversial discussion on the court led by the Rimese heads that first forced him to resign and then back down. Since that episode, almost the end of his cup participation (he played 10 games and won 4, tied 3 and lost 3), Cristal regained spirit and points. Today it is not only the team that plays the best, but also the only one in which there is clearly a star per line: Ignacio in the back, Yotún in the middle and Grimaldo in attack. One fact: the most expelled coach of the year (4 times) must remember that he is more useful on the bench than by punishing a colleague. If that happens, he is the great candidate.

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My Sub 50 journalist friends, men from the old DT newsroom, would call him that: “Old Fox.” Fossati is, by far, the coach with the best CV who comes to Universitario from Gareca, and further back, from Markarián. The ‘U’ – his administrators say – needed a leader like that. In his favor he has his unbeaten record at home (14 matches coached at the Monumental and no defeat in League 1), his confidence in implementing a system that made him a winner in LDU as soon as he arrived (3-5-2) and a close relationship that It has made him recover, for example, a dull summer Piero Quispe. Something that escapes his influence plays against him: the terrible aim of his attackers. On average, according to Sofá Score, the ‘U’ shoots on goal 20 times per game and barely converts once. Very little for a team that wants to wake up from the nightmare of ten years without becoming champion.

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In the shadows, and perhaps the most dogmatic of the three, comes Mauricio Larriera. I would not have arrived at Alianza without the recommendation of Bengoechea – a God in Matute – and if Chicho Salas had not distanced himself so much from the leaders of a team that, in the case of Zambrano or the case of Barcos, publicly declared that “the team plays badly.” Well, Alianza doesn’t play better with the Uruguayan. Far from its initial phrase that said “winning is the most important thing, but so is style,” Alianza is undefeated in its management, with two draws in Cusco and a perfect record at home. Whistling softly and almost without any of the foreign reinforcements that broke the market, it is there, breathing at the top of the table. And if today it passes to Mannucci, he is another of the leaders.

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