This is the hell that awaits Peru in Barranquilla against Colombia, according to journalists from that country

Barranquilla seems to be the other rival to beat in the visit to Colombia. The peruvian team He will visit the coffee team on Friday, January 28 and will do so at 4 in the afternoon, a time where the heat will be ‘one more player’ of the locals.

”, Alexis Rodríguez, a Channel 1 journalist who covers the incidents of the Colombian national team, warns us.

Fabio Poveda, who lives in Barranquilla itself, is much clearer. “Here there is not much difference, it is the same climate all year round. Suddenly, in November-December and January there is also a lot of breeze, especially at night and that cools a little, but nothing more ”, tells us. “adds the journalist from the Deporte Espectacular radio station.

Peru’s last two visits to Colombia have been to Barranquilla, but they were in June and October. Both were played at 3:30 pm with 2-0 losses for the Bicolor, with temperatures that passed 30 degrees. The scenario that awaits us in January does not seem to be that different.

“The sun and the heat are constant throughout the year. It can vary one or two degrees, but the truth is practically the same “adds Fabio.

However, that breeze that Fabio mentions is the same one that Ramiro Jiménez, from “Emisora ​​Atlético” mentions. “At that time, in other months, the temperature is very strong. In January, perhaps it becomes more bearable by the winds in the city “says the experienced journalist who lives in Barranquilla.

“We are both going to suffer the heat”, says Antonio García Pye in an interview with El Comercio. The same says Ramiro Jiménez. “They are overwhelmed by suffocating in the stadium, which is what rivals complain about the most “, tells us.

Colombia will have one more day of work at home, since it scheduled the game for Friday 28, to have more time to work, but from Barranquilla they tell us that it has nothing to do with the heat itself. “In one more day you don’t adapt to the cold or the heat. It’s just one more day at work “Fabio tells us.

Javier Carbonell, from Noticentro 1CM &, adds more data. “By the time the game starts there will be a high temperature, 30 or 31 degrees, which makes Barranquilla a difficult place, but this has become a complicated factor for the Colombian team itself. It has already been explained by Reinado Rueda himself, that this factor is no longer taking it into account “, tells us.

“”, declared the same Rueda last October. “I think it is a secondary factor, since Colombia, with all its players playing abroad, the fact of adapting to the temperature and humidity is the same for both”He declared in an interview with El Espectador.

This is due to the results that the coffee group has been having at home. In Barranquilla, the Colombia team has its training headquarters and the Metropolitan Stadium is its home. “There are seven games that he has played in Barranquilla -the first two with Queiroz and then with Rueda-. Of those, he has only achieved two victories, four draws and one defeat.”, comments us.

The schedules weren’t a determining factor either, from what he tells us. “ In a similar schedule, at 3:30 in the afternoon they lost to Uruguay (0-3) and the only two victories were on the first date against Venezuela. It was 3-0 and he played at 6:30 pm, and against Chile, in the best match of the national team, it was 3-1 and it was played at 7:30 pm “, Javier reminds us.

Peru will have to face those conditions in Barranquilla. The players already know what they are up against and the technical command works with that in mind. In addition, the management of the selection was already in the Colombian city to have everything ready so that the Bicolor has the necessary comforts for the qualifying duel.