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Peru and Chile tied this Friday without goals at the Monumental Stadium in Lima for the 2026 World Cup qualifier, and were left with one point on each side that does not change the reality of both teams that are in the last places in the classification and far from the position. of repechage.
La Blanquirroja remains in ninth place with seven points, while La Roja is bottom with six points, without being able to reduce the distance with seventh place, the last place that gives access to the play-offs, and which is in the hands of Venezuela with 12 units.
It was a dance of desperation, in which Peru took the initiative by approaching the rival area in the early stages, but it was Chile who had up to three options to open the scoring of the match.
The first was a rebound in the area that Vicente Pizarro finished off into the hands of goalkeeper Carlos Cáceda, who had to save his goal a second time on a shot by Rodrigo Echeverría, after a cross from Eduardo Vargas.
In a three-minute offensive, La Roja had another chance in a header from center back Paulo Díaz that ended up controlled and made La Blanquirroja react, quickly generating an action in the Chilean goal that Paolo Guerrero was unable to complete.
La Roja, driven by the return of Arturo Vidal in the captaincy, continued to attack the Mexican América attacker Diego Valdés, who with a shot from outside the area made Cáceda shine in the rejection.
Then came the chance for midfielder Alexander Aravena of Gremio, who responded to his first start by generating danger on the Chilean right wing, but his shots were blocked.
After the initial vertigo on the local area, the game fell into a slump with the dispute for the ball between both teams without a specific destination for 10 minutes, until Guerrero tested goalkeeper Brayan Cortés.
After that, Chile’s clearest option would come in the first half, with Aravena trained alone in the area after a long pass from Pizarro, but the player chose to pass it to Valdés who did not hit a good shot and the play ended with a header from Vargas that Cáceda took out.
Peru’s response made La Roja tremble, which was fortunate that Sergio Peña’s shot hit the left post and Guerrero finished off the shot, having been left alone on the far post.
Starting the second half came Vidal’s first shot that the Peruvian goalkeeper controlled in two halves, but a few minutes later he put La Roja in danger by losing a ball at the start.
The slip ended with a cannon shot from outside the crescent by the Argentine Boca Juniors side Luis Advíncula, which Cortés rejected.
The duel lost pace with the Bicolor’s fouls, which were unable to deepen their attacks and became very physical against an opponent who had control of the ball, but who was not as dangerous as in the first half.
Peru, led by Ricardo Gareca and which added its first point in the tie after four defeats, only had its second shot of the complement in the 71st minute with Valdés, who bounced the ball over the crossbar.
Peru became more incisive on the right wing and had the goal in the 73rd minute at the feet of Alex Valera, who could not connect with a cross from Andy Polo against Cortés who had failed to exit his goal.
The game ended with a chance for Peru to win it on the hour mark, after the Chilean striker Felipe Mora committed a penalty on Gianluca Lapadula that the Brazilian judge Wilton Sampaio sanctioned, but that was rejected with the VAR that ruled a previous offside .
0.Peror: Carlos Ctoyield; Miguel Araujo, Aldo Corzo (d.86, Joséand Rivera), Alexander Callens; Andy Polo, Wilder Cartagena, Sergio Peña (d.78, Edison Flores), Oliver Sonne (d.87, Renzo Garcés), Luis Advíncula; Paolo Guerrero (m.63, Gianluca Lapadula) and Alex Valera (m.78, Piero Quispe).
Coach: Jorge Fosatti.
0. Chile: Brayan Cortés; Felipe Loyola, Guillermo Maripán, Paulo Díaz, Gabriel Suazo; Rodrigo Echeverría, Vicente Pizarro (m.95, Esteban Pavez); Alexander Aravena, Arturo Vidal, Diego Valdés; Eduardo Vargas (d.96, Felipe Mora).
