Alianza Lima has been superior to UTC in a match played at the Alejandro Villanueva Stadium and valid for matchday 9 of the 2022 Liga 1. Despite the fact that it has not been able to reflect it in the scoreboard, the local team has enjoyed greater opportunities to get ahead. Partly because of the lack of effectiveness in the face of the goal and also because of the visitors' goalkeeper, Solomon Libman, who made an impressive double save to save his team.
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Alianza Lima hosts UTC today at the Alejandro Villanueva de Matute Stadium for the 9th date of the 2022 League 1 Apertura Tournament. In La Victoria there is an obligation to win. And it is that they reach the duel with the Cajamarquinos after the defeat at home to Argentina's River Plate in their debut in Group F of the Copa Libertadores last Wednesday, April 6.
The 'blue whites' will play a match for Liga 1 after almost a month, because they rested on date 7 prior to the break for the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers and at the restart of the tournament last week, their match against Sport Huancayo was suspended. In this way, they played six matches, they have one pending, and accumulated only five points out of fifteen possible that place them in the lower zone of Liga 1.
In addition, they are under pressure to reverse the bad streak of results with four defeats in a row in Liga 1 and Libertadores. In the Apertura Tournament they lost consecutively to Alianza Atlético, Sporting Cristal and Melgar. The last 'blue and white' triumph was on February 20 (3-1) against Carlos A. Mannucci in Matute.
For its part, UTC arrives at this meeting after adding two defeats in a row to Sport Huancayo and Ayacucho FC. In addition, the 'Gavilán del Norte' has not achieved regularity in its results with two wins, one draw and four defeats in the seven games played that allowed him to score seven points, considering that he has already rested in the tournament.
The coach of the 'Victorians', Carlos Bustos, will make modifications to his starting team regarding the last match against River Plate and thinking about the next match against Colo Colo in Chile for the 2nd date of the group stage. He would return to the 4-3-3 scheme with the inclusion of Fabio Rojas to give Christian Ramos rest. In addition, Cristian Benavente would go to the alternate bench and Pablo Lavandeira would take his place. Striker Wilmer Aguirre would reappear on offense.
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