Birthday celebration: Yotún, the goals and the calendar, why Cristal has an advantage in the definition of the Apertura | CHRONICLE

The owner of the saint is also the owner of Sporting Cristal’s style. Yoshimar Yotún celebrated his 34th birthday yesterday and with him, the entire celestial race celebrates having a player of hierarchy, skill and talent. With a goal and an assist, Yoshi crowned a great afternoon for the Rimenses’ 4-0 victory over Sport Huancayo at the Alberto Gallardo, thereby regaining the lead of the Apertura Tournament with 25 points, one more than Universitario, with whom he is fighting today. to date the position of privilege.

It was a heavenly afternoon wherever you look, because Cristal scored six goals, but two were annulled due to millimeter offsides. Because when Yotún takes control of the game, the best of the team emerges, starting with the safe pass, the attractive wall and the accurate deep pass. Thus, the brewers showed up with everything in the second half to score the four winning goals.

And the Rimense team – which still does not have attacker Martín Cauteruccio – scored again after three victories with a difference of a single goal and one defeat. When he finds the spaces – and gifts like Minzum Quina’s in the first goal – the brewers have a feast of goals.

Cristal has two differentials with respect to the other teams fighting for the leadership of the Apertura. With the technique of Yotún, the mobility of the Argentine Santiago González and the physical delivery of Gustavo Cazonatti, he has a lot of game development in the midfield, to which is added the quick counterattacks with Joao Grimaldo.

In Alianza it is difficult to generate play, so much so that the Uruguayan Sebastián Rodríguez has to retreat to his centers for a clean exit. While the ‘U’ is more vertical and suffers because neither ‘Canchita’ Gonzales nor Jairo Concha have assumed control of the game.

“We have a good squad,” Yotún summarizes regarding yesterday’s scoring quota: Ávila, Ignácio, Yoshi and the young Diego Otoya scored. At times you don’t miss Cauteruccio – who is already training but his recovery from his kidney problem would take more weeks -, since even Ignácio joins the scoring quota and very young people like Maxloren Castro (16 years old), Otoya ( 19) and the same winger Gabriel Alfaro (20), who started yesterday, but had to be changed.

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The other big difference between the celestials and the compadres is the calendar. Without international competition involved, Cristal can manage the wear and tear in the Apertura. And the next date will be very significant, since they will have to visit Deportivo Garcilaso on Monday the 15th and the team from Cusco will arrive after having played against Lanús in Buenos Aires on Thursday for the Copa Sudamericana.

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For Alianza and Universitario it is also a week of traveling for the Copa Libertadores. The creams, second in the Apertura table, have to play in Barranquilla tomorrow against Junior with the wear and tear of the heat that playing in the Colombian city means and on Saturday they must face Boys. While Alianza, third with 18 units, travels to Asunción to play against Cerro Porteño on Wednesday and on Sunday they face Alianza Atlético.

April could be a decisive month, since Cristal will only play four games (they have three left), while for the compadres there are seven games, with two already played.

Cristal defends the leadership day after day. And although he regrets not being able to be in the Conmebol tournaments, today he must focus on the local tournament to secure the first ticket to the playoffs with the Apertura. He has everything to win it.

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