Peruvian national team: Who could replace the suspended Trauco and Advíncula against Colombia?

Venezuela is the country where the most times won Peru in the PlayoffsBut it was a territory where we hadn’t gotten a win since 1997. Until today. This Tuesday, the peruvian team beat the ‘Vinotinto’ 2-1 for day 14 of the South American qualifiers. Three gold points that, with four games to go, bring us closer to Qatar.

Gianluca Lapadula and Christian Cueva, with his goals, and Pedro Gallese with his great penalty saved they unleashed madness at the Olympic Stadium in Caracas. However, it is also necessary to think about the future and, if that is what it is about, it worries -and a lot- two of the three reprimands suffered by the Bicolor. Luis Advíncula and Miguel Trauco, the World Cup full-backs, saw the yellow card and will not be in the next game against visiting Colombia.

At the moment the Blanquirroja is located in the fifth place of the Positions table with 17 points, equaling Colombia (4°; is facing Paraguay) and one more than Chile (6°, will collide with Ecuador from 7:15 pm.).

In January of next year, for date 15, everyone’s team will visit the Colombian cast. A key duel in which we will not be able to count on Advíncula or Trauco, the starting full-backs in the victory against Venezuela but who did not have the best performance. According to the UnoxUno of Total Sport, ‘Lucho’ and Miguel had a qualification of four points, the lowest together with Yoshimar Yotún, the third booked.

Possible replacements

With a couple of months to analyze and decide what is best for the Peruvian team, Ricardo Gareca will have to prepare for the match against Colombia without two of his starting defenses. Who are the possible replacements? Let’s evaluate it on a case-by-case basis.

The Bicolor so far has not found the replacement for Luis Advíncula. The right-back has played 13 of the 14 games in the Playoffs. Solo was not in the loss to Argentina in Buenos Aires due to injury. His replacement was Jhilmar Lora, the Sporting Cristal player who began to gain ground in the America’s Cup 2021, a tournament in which ‘Lucho’ was not because he was playing the promotion playoffs with his former club, Rayo Vallecano.

If we are based on the antecedents,. However, the Cristal also has arguments to take over the position. Al Colombia vs. Peru will arrive with the experience of having played two League 1 finals and international tournaments (Sudamericana and Libertadores) with their club.

Other options would be Oslimg Mora, who debuted with the national team in the 1-0 loss to Bolivia in La Paz, and Carlos Zambrano, the center-back who has no problem playing for the band. The two can join the variants that the ‘Tigre’ handles to take care of the side on which the Colombian Luis Díaz moves, one of the most unbalanced extremes of the continent.

In the case of Miguel Trauco not much drama. Its natural replacement is Marcos Lopez. The San José Earthquakes footballer of Major League Soccer has even won the spot in some games, showing defensive strength and projection in attack.

“When Professor Gareca asks me and wants a replacement for Trauco, I will be prepared”López said in early 2020..

In addition, as an option there is also Nilson Loyola, who returned to the call precisely for the duels against Bolivia and Venezuela. The celestial was not considered since last year.