Alianza Lima vs Cristal: This is how the champion is defined and why it is important to score this afternoon

The National Stadium will be painted blue and white. The soccer phrase that you just read will stop being a journalistic slang to be a great truth after 622 long days. This Sunday, from 3 in the afternoon, Lima Alliance and Sporting Crystal They will face each other in the first final of the League 1 2021 with 12 thousand lucky people in the stands cheering, something that had not happened in Peru since March 9, 2020 in the tie between Ayacucho FC and Alianza Universidad in the Ciudad de Cumaná.

“We will be expectant, we want to see the two best teams, the ones that have done the best this season”, said the coach of the Peruvian team, Ricardo Gareca, about the meeting. .

But in hand-to-hand everything is matched. alliance and Cristal The faces have been seen in four national definitions: 1961, 2003, 2004 and 2018. The first and the last cup went to Rímac, the other two, to La Victoria.

“We expect two very tough games. The team must show the regularity it has had throughout the year, with great solvency, with enough imbalance, always looking for the games. I think it is a characteristic that the team has managed and it has served us very well throughout the season “, said the intimate technician Carlos Bustos, who will direct his first final in Peruvian soccer.

The numbers, statistics and history come and go, and will surely be put aside when referee Diego Haro kicks off. However, it is necessary to know in detail the rules of these two matches that will determine the champion of the local tournament.

This is how the champion is defined and why goals are important

Beyond the paths they took to reach the grand finale, alliance and Cristal The chance to crown a great year will be played in 180 minutes. Two games that separate hell from glory. Therefore, below we remind you how the champion is defined.

Cristal finished as the leader of the accumulated table with 58 points, two more than alliance, so the rimenses, in theory, should choose the location. “The club that has had the highest score in the Accumulated Table of Positions will have the right to choose its turn to be local”, indicates the regulations of League 1, although both matches will be played in the same stadium and with both fans.

What happens if they tie? If the equality is maintained at the end of the 180 minutes, 30 ‘of extra time will be played in the second final. If the tie persists at the end, the champion will be defined in the penalty shootout.

The stage is set. The swollen ones, ready. And the conditions are fully given. This Sunday, Alianza and Cristal will begin to define the best of the year.