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Guided by an inspired and timely Arturo Vidal, the Chilean team beat Peru 2-0 this Friday in Santiago and achieved their first victory in the South American qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup in matchday three.
The result provisionally installs La Roja in sixth place in the standings with 4 points and leaves Blanquirroja eighth with only 1 whole.
The ‘Clásico del Pacífico’ was favorable to Chile from the beginning and its best player of the night, Arturo Vidal, signed it with a goal, who at 19 minutes received a pass from the left of Jean Meneses and from the middle distance fired a shell. that got into the upper left corner of the Peruvian goal.
The 1-0 gave more confidence to the Chilean team, so their control of the ball and control of the actions increased against a Blanquirroja who could not find the return to the game.
Chile did their thing on the wings and as a result they got 2-0 at 35 minutes, again through Vidal, who with the nose of an accomplished scorer accompanied Fabián Orellana’s high shot from the right and took advantage of the rebound that gave the Peruvian Luis Advíncula to push the ball into the net.
The bad time that Peru was going through caused its coach Ricardo Gareca to send creative Cristian Cueva to the field to replace Pedro Aquino at 38 minutes, but little was what the midfielder managed to do until the end of the first half.
In the second period, Chile had a trade to administer the income and slowed the game, with the risk that the Peruvians, with their own love turned on the offensive, would achieve the discount and even the tie, which finally did not happen.
The ‘Pacific Classic’ left several outstanding facts: ‘the King’ Arturo Vidal reached 31 goals with the Red, the goalkeeper Claudio Bravo played an official match with the national team after three years of absence and the Uruguayan referee Esteban Ostojich, who directed the actions, debuted in the World Cup qualifiers.
Likewise, the attacker Gianluca Lapadula, of Italian father and Peruvian mother, debuted with the Inca team when he entered the second half by Raúl Ruidíaz. Next Tuesday on the fourth day heading to Qatar 2022, Chile will visit Venezuela and Peru will host Argentina.
