On this day, Juan Carlos Oblitas, general director of the FPF spoke about the current situation of the Peruvian team. Thus, he emphasized the rout of the ‘blanquirrojo’ team by 1-4 against El Salvador. In turn, he indicated that despite the fact that Peru does not go to the World Cup, it has a planned a friendly for the month of November; before the start of the tournament.
Although no rival is yet known, everything indicates that it would be Paraguay. ‘The white-haired’ nor will he play the maximum tournament at the national team level so it could be the ideal rival for a match of that type. In turn, Juan Carlos himself added that if that rival is confirmed, the match would be played in Lima or provinces.
A favorable duel for Peru
Both teams have met in a total of 55 occasions, where half of them have been Paraguayan victories. However, it seems that in recent years the situation has changed, and it is Peru who dominates in duels against the team of William Barros. of the last 10 matches; Paraguay has only had one victory and it was on November 15, 2014. In this way, It’s been eight years since ‘la albirroja’ hasn’t known what it’s like to beat Peru.
Since then, the team led by Reinoso and even does nothing for Gareca has defeated up to 7 times to Paraguay. The last one was in the World Cup qualifying second leg, where he beat him by 2-0 with goals from Lapadula and Yotún.