Peru vs Chile: this is how Ricardo Gareca played the Chilean team every time one of his figures was missing

The ‘Classic of the Pacific’ sounds like a total football war. And this Thursday the Peru vs Chile will be lived to the fullest since the peruvian team and the Chilean team are on the edge of the abyss. A fall will leave them with very little chance in the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers.

The peruvian team it will receive southerners with serious casualties. Without a doubt, the injury of André Carrillo and the absence of Christofer Gonzales due to suspension. Both have been summoned, but for the other visiting parties, against Bolivia and Argentina.

For its part, Chilean team It also comes with significant casualties, the most sensitive being that of Arturo Vidal, whom the Chileans describe as “the soul of the team.” In addition, there will be Eugenio Mena and Eduardo Vargas, who were called off due to injuries.

Thus, both teams will have to make variations to make up for those absences with the importance of the game. For this reason, Ricardo Gareca summoned 30 players, “to have them all,” as he himself explained in his press conference.

There are variants for the loss of Carrillo if a change from man to man is taken into account, that is, to put one extreme on the right. Gabriel Costas and Yordy Reyna, who ended his match with DC United – he will be evaluated today – are the specific options on the list of the Peruvian team.

The last time André Carrillo was not available for a match was in the semifinals of the Copa América and Ricardo Gareca surprised everyone by placing a line of five defenses. After the first half, he had to rearm his eleven and returned to the line of 4, placing Raziel García to play with three midfielders in the midfield.

REACTIONS TO ABSENCES

Therefore, now we will review how Peru faced Gareca a Chile in the matches they faced each other – two victories and four defeats.

In that match, Paolo Guerrero was not available and it was the first call for Gianluca Lapadula on the peruvian team. However, placing the Tapia-Aquino-Yotún trident in the middle -as he played Brazil in Lima-, leaving Carrillo and Flores on the wing, sacrificing Christian Cueva.

However, the midfield trident did not work, so it was only in the 39th minute that Cueva took Aquino’s place, to have greater control of the ball. Meanwhile, Lapadula marked his debut entering in the 60th minute of play.

The Copa América 2019 saw the most resounding triumph of the Peruvian team with a resounding 3-0 over La Roja. In that tournament, on the last date of the group stage, so he could not play the KO phase of the tournament.

Jefferson used to play behind Guerrero or he dived for the right wing. Remember that André Carrillo was not used during the first part of that Copa América. Therefore, in his absence, the ‘Culebra’ returned to the title to play as it was done during the Qualifiers: Tapia-Yotún, Carrillo-Cueva-Flores and Guerrero above.

On a great night, Peru beat Chile 3-0 (Flores, Yotún and Guerrero) and after 44 years advanced to the final of the Copa América where, unfortunately, they fell to Brazil.

Before that meeting, there was also a 3-0 for Peru, in the friendly in October 2018. Gareca did not have Guerrero for that friendly -he was suspended due to the issue of doping after the World Cup-, so he played with Ruidíaz de 9, although always with the pattern that he dragged from the qualifying rounds: 4-2-3-1 with the Yotún-Tapia duo at the wheel, Carrillo on the right, Cueva on the center and Flores on the left.

Before, of those games, Gareca faced other times Chile, two by Playoffs, with defeats both in Santiago (2-1), where he played without André Carrillo -without activity at Benfica-, for which he called up Irven Ávila, who at that time was playing in the LDU of Quito. In Lima it was 3-4, although this last game was played with ten men for 70 minutes due to the expulsion of Cueva.

Meanwhile, the first confrontation between both teams, with Gareca in Peru, was also with the Bicolor with one man less for almost the entire match. It was in the semifinals of the Copa América 2015 (2-1 loss), a match that was conditioned by the early expulsion of Carlos Zambrano, just after 20 minutes.

Thus, Ricardo Gareca faces a new game with an important loss, that of André Carrillo. As we can see, he almost always played with two midfielders, however, now the system used by the coach in the Peruvian team is with three in the middle, with the inclusion of Sergio Peña along with Renato Tapia and Yoshimar Yotún.