South American Women’s Sub 20: the scenarios that the Bicolor has to advance to the hexagonal and fight for a place in the World Cup

You have 90 minutes to make history, a match for the dream to come true and the World Cup dream to become ever closer. The Peruvian Under 20 women’s team faces its counterpart from Uruguay this afternoon (4 pm, via DSports) and a victory would put it in the final hexagonal where the places for the World Cup are distributed.

It is not an easy task for the Bicolor, an international tournament has never been, but there is something different about these girls under the command of Jaqueline Ucella, Emily Lima’s assistant from the senior team. “Come on, come on, car…”, harangues the team’s figure, Sashenka Porras, in the middle of the game. “Keep going, until the end”, she can be heard from the bench where the coach of the senior team is also present. It is a fighting team that makes people think that classification is possible.

However, he has to improve his defensive output. The national team is a team that builds its game from its defense to its attack, with the departure of Mía León. However, many times that pass is not clear and the plays are divided. In addition, we must try to find Sashenka more, the player who makes the difference in attack and pulls the strings from three quarters forward.

But you have to consider a differential and it is the physical factor. For Peru it is the fourth match in just seven days – it is played leaving one day – while for Uruguay it is their third match in five days. The Bicolor only rested on the last day and the Charrúas did so on the first.

-The maths-

With four points, Peru is second in Group A, the same units as Argentina. Paraguay is first with nine. Uruguay and Ecuador are last without points (but they have already rested). Of the five countries, the first three will have tickets to the next phase.

Peru faces a Uruguay that has lost its first two games against Paraguay and Argentina. For the charrúas, it is a game of life or death and that pressure can work against them, because they must win or win.

Peru must win so as not to depend on mathematics, since with victory it would make seven points and would be unattainable for the Uruguayans and Ecuador, who face each other.

The tie does not eliminate the Bicolor, but it forces them to put on the albiceleste shirt after the game to encourage Argentina to beat Ecuador. Thus, with five units we ensure a quota (Uruguay could only reach four and Ecuador three). Or if Ecuador wins, expect Argentina to also lose to Paraguay in the final.

An eventual defeat leaves everything in the hands of luck. First, Ecuador does not beat Argentina in the second match of the day and that on Friday in the duel between celestial and norteñas there is no winner between them.

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