Universitario de Deportes is sinking more and more in Liga 1 2022. And it is that after the tie against Sport Boys for the 11th date of the Apertura Tournament, the chances of fighting for the title go away. In that sense, Peter Arévalo analyzed the present of the 'cream' box, considering that he has not raised his head since the defeat against Alianza Lima in the Peruvian football classic.
“I think that Universitario is going through a crisis and its fans show it. The number of people who scored in the last two dates, of 6 points won 1. I put myself in the place of either of them, Alianza Lima or Universitario. Losing a classic in the way it happened last week and not winning the next match makes the fan not overcome that. The big boys fan needs to see their team win to beat the moment. And today (yesterday) he didn't get over it,” said the sports narrator on the program 'Equipo F' of ESPN Peru.
In the face of the 'porteño' team, the institution 'merengue' enabled nearly 30,000 tickets to the Monumental Stadium for its fans to watch this match and almost all of them were sold. The fans needed their team to win, especially after the heavy fall they suffered against the 'compadre' last day.
In fact, the locals started winning, but a series of mistakes hurt them to get a better result. “They won it 1 to 0 and Sport Boys tied Universitario in a new fake performance by the 'cream' team. Jorge Araujo's team made variants but it was not enough to win”, he added.
Alex Valera's goal just at the start of the second half (49 minutes) was shouted with great passion because of the bad time they were going through. It even seemed that things would change for the better, but it didn't happen. It was only 10 minutes later for Jostin Alarcón to place the tie after a passivity in the mark of the defenders of the 'merengue' cast. With the income of Rodrigo Vilca and Joao Villamarín they tried to reverse the situation to get ahead again on the scoreboard, although in the end this did not happen. This context caused the fans to blunder the team in the face of the impossibility of sustaining the result and not being able to win a match.
PUFFIES OF THE SWOLLEN 'CREAM'
Precisely, the journalist referred to these criticisms that were present at the sports colossus of Ate. “It seems to me that Universitario de Deportes, and that is why there is the explanation, because the fan does not claim for the pure ones. He doesn't go and blunder or boo his team for the cigars. The fan is not satisfied. The fans of the big teams will always want to win, whatever team they have. There is a historical obligation for big teams and that is what is not happening in Universitario,” he said.
SUBSIDENCE OF MIND
And it is that the fact that they lost to the 'blue and white' team and in a scandalous way, plunged the 'student' squad into a soul hole. Perhaps not so much in terms of results, since they were still in the top 8 and with latent possibilities of fighting for the Apertura, but the factor that it was a rout against the classic rival was decisive in getting criticism from their own fans. In addition to the well-known departure of the Uruguayan coach, Álvaro Gutiérrez.
Jorge Araujo (DT of the Reserve) entered his replacement, for now temporarily. However, equality against the 'rosados' and again as locals, diminished those chances of staying in the squad of teams that are up to the expectations for the first title of the season.
For now they have a slight hope, as they are in eighth place with 17 points, although the difference with the first places is only 5 points. However, they are no longer dependent on themselves and must expect those arriving to lose units to get fully into the contest.
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