Álvaro Gutiérrez to Piero Quispe before Universitario vs Alianza Lima: “You have to enjoy the classic”

Piero Quispe will probably play his first classic as a professional footballer and will do so at the Monumental stadium and with about 60 thousand 'creams' fans cheering, surely, from start to finish. All this will be new for the talented 20-year-old footballer, who is shaping up to be a starter in Álvaro Guitérrez's scheme. The Uruguayan strategist commented in the previous one that “you have to enjoy” the Universitario vs Alianza Lima.

“Piero Quispe has to enjoy this kind of match. He should not feel pressure, I am not going to add pressure to him,” said the coach at a press conference, where he referred to several points of this important commitment and was accompanied by Nelinho Quina and Federico Alonso, central incumbents of the 'merengue' team.

The young striker is the one who has played the most minutes this season in the 'cream' draw, adding 771 in total. In addition, he has 15 successful dribbles, 11 key passes and 86% of his successful long passes. On the other hand, he received a total of 26 fouls. These numbers are between Liga 1 and Copa Libertadores 2022 matches.

According to the training sessions seen in Campo Mar, the strategist 'charrua' would come out with the following lineup: José Carvallo; Aldo Corzo, Federico Alonso, Nelinho Quina, Nelson Cabanillas; Angel Cayetano, Gerson Barreto; Piero Quispe; Andy Polo, Alberto Quintero and Alex Valera. The latter is doubtful because of an annoyance he felt in the last practices, but they will wait for him until the last minutes.

Universitario and Alianza Lima will meet at the Monumental de Ate stadium from 3:00 p.m. (Peruvian time) and will have 57,000 tickets enabled for local fans. The match, to be played within the framework of the tenth date of the 2022 League 1 Apertura Tournament, will be broadcast on the GOLPERU channel. The one in charge of delivering justice will be Kevin Ortega, who has already directed classics.

ÁLVARO GUTIÉRREZ RELIES ON HIS EXPERIENCE IN CLASSICS

Álvaro Gutiérrez has led big clubs in South America, such as Peñarol from Uruguay or LDU from Quito from Ecuador. In those years he also played classics and gained experience, which has helped him for this match against Alianza Lima, as he expressed at the last press conference.

“I think that the experience of having led this type of match is fundamental. I'm not the same coach when I directed my first classic. Thank God I had the opportunity to be a coach in several countries. Some with good results and others not so much There are factors that you learn with the course of the matches. The way the players train and the approach. There are classics where I ran from behind to rivals because I needed to win and others where I was better and other results served me,” he commented at the conference.

MATCHES BETWEEN UNIVERSITY AND ALIANZA LIMA

Since the 'classic of the sticks, 'Universitario de Deportes and Alianza Lima have crossed paths 263 times, only counting official matches from the local championship, since they were also measured in the Copa Libertadores (12 commitments), Copa Sudamericana (2 commitments) and friendlies (88 commitments). The 'blue and white' added 101 wins. while the 'creams' won the victory 88 times. They were tied 74 times.

THE LAST FIVE MATCHES: UNIVERSITARIO VS. LIMA ALLI

2021: University of Sports 1 - 2 Alianza Lima

2020: University of Sports 2 - 0 Alianza Lima

2019: University of Sports 1 - 0 Alianza Lima

2019: Alianza Lima 2 - 3 University of Sports

2018: Alianza Lima 2 - 1 University of Sports

The last time Universitario and Alianza Lima played in Monumental ended with victory for the 'merengues' with goals from Aldo Corzo and Jonathan Dos Santos in penalty.

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