The selection of Venezuela He broke his drought of triumphs on Tuesday by beating 1-0 to that of Perua result that left it in the playful area, and revived their hopes of classifying the World of 2026, when four dates are missing for the closure of the South American qualifiers.
Solomon Rondónthe Mexican Pachuca striker, was the author of the only goal of the Vinotinto, with a attinance collection from the penalty spot, which did not cool the actions in an intense party, round trip and several friction in the countryside.
The Peruvian National Team was bitter and lamenting an alleged goal of Bryan Reyna that Chilean referee Cristian Garay annulled to warn a hand.
The visiting players presented a possible conflict of interest, since the Chilean team, the last classified, also seeks, such as the Peruvian, the seventh since it is entitled to play a repesca.
The penalty of the penalty that originated the only goal of the game came to the Peruvians after a divided ball, in which Rondón intervened, and after the pressure exerted by those led by the Argentine coach Fernando Batista, who went to the court of the Maturín Monumental stadium with the clear objective to spray the streak of nine consecutive dates without a victory.
It was so that from the first moment Yeferson Soteldo, the end of the Brazilian saints, tried to sneak into the rival area, where he was about to score head.
Rondón also contributed to the local attack, although two goal options were lost, the clearest at minute 15, when in an attempt to clear a Peruvian player lost a ball, who also did not reach the goalkeeper Pedro Gallese and in his career was followed by the Venezuelan, which, however, was anticipated by a rival at the Arco Gate.
The joy overflowed a few minutes to fulfill the regulation time of the first stage, when the dispute of a ball gave way to a penalty that Rondón did not forgive.
And when the Caribbean hoped to go to the showers with the score in favor, a shot by Andrés Carrillo, the experienced Brazilian Corinthians striker, took everyone by surprise, but the score was annulled after a revision of the VAR.
After the return of the break, the local team, browd by a bustling fans, did not lose the brios and continued to disturb the arc protected by Gallese insurance, which managed to interpose or divert balls with a goal trajectory.
In the 71th minute the visitors rehearsed two danger actions, which managed to decompose the script of the premises.
The final moments were consumed with a Venezuelan team in the opposite area and an audience that did not stop celebrating.
With this result, the Venezuela team added three points until it reached 15 and advanced to the seventh position of the classification, which entitles to play a playback for the two quotas in dispute towards the World Cup event that Mexico, the United States and Canada will host next year.
The Bicolor, meanwhile, remained in the penultimate place of the table-with 10 units-, after 3-1 was imposed on Bolivia in the thirteenth date of the tie, which meant the premiere on the bench of the Peruvian nationalized Argentine coach Óscar Ibáñez.
Technical file
1. Venezuela: Rafael Romo; Jon Aramburu, Nahuel Ferraresi, Wilker Ángel, Alexander González, Yangel Herrera (M.78 Cristian Cáseres), José Andrés Martínez (m.78 Tomás Rincón), Jefferson Savarino (m.83 Josua Mejías), Yeferson Soteldo, Josef Martínez (m.52 Fablasco Segovia) (m. 78 Jhonder Cádiz).
Selector: Fernando Batista.
0. Peru: Pedro Gallese; Luis Advíncula, Carlos Zambrano, Renzo Garcés, Marcos López, Pedro Aquino (M.62 Edison Flores), Renato Tapia, André Carrillo, Andy Polo (m.83 Gianluca Lapadula), Paolo Guerrero and Bryan Reyna (m.62 Kevin Quevedo).
Selector: Óscar Ibáñez.
Goals: 1-0, m.41: Solomon Rondón, of penalty.
Chilean referee Cristián Garay admonished Carlos Zambrano, Pedro Aquino, Alexander González, Josef Martínez and Yangel Herrera.
Incidents: The fourteenth date of the 2026 World Cup qualifiers played at the Maturín Monumental Stadium, located in the homonymous capital of the Monagas state, before more than 33,000 spectators.
