“The most important thing of all is that Peru comes to the last two dates depending on itself, that’s very good and I value it for the sacrifice of the boys, coming depending on us was what we were looking for,” he said. Gareca after the game that Peru tied this Tuesday 1-1 with Ecuador in Lima.
With the result obtained this Tuesday in Lima, the Peruvians added 20 units and were in the fifth position that gives the right to play the World Cup playoff, while Ecuador postponed, with 25 points, its very possible qualification for the World Cup in Qatar.
The team stressed, however, that Peru “needs to win” the game on the penultimate day that it will play as a visitor against Uruguay and valued the point obtained against the Ecuadorians, which allows them to occupy the World Cup playoff zone.
“We wanted to win the three points, but when you can’t win you shouldn’t lose, and even more so in these final instances,” he assured before saying that against the Ecuadorians “it was a very tough game, very difficult.”
He recalled that the match “was uphill” after receiving a surprise goal after two minutes of play, but he congratulated his players “because without a doubt they were able to tie a game that was very difficult.”
Gareca assured that, being in the final stretch “that defines a goal”, he considers that “the most important thing is not to lose sight of the objective”. “At this moment, Peru has to continue fighting for the objective that we set for ourselves,” he concluded.
The goals of the intense match of the sixteenth qualifying round were scored by the Ecuadorian striker Michael Estrada, at 2 minutes, and by the Peruvian midfielder Edison Flores, at 69.
In the seventeenth and penultimate date of the South American qualifiers, which will be played on March 24, Peru will visit Uruguay, and Ecuador will visit the already eliminated Paraguay team.
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