Last hour | “Venezuela, we have faith”: the Vinotinto marks Peru 1-0, after Solomon Rondón’s penalty goal

Venezuela and Peru, who took a breath at the premiere of Oscar Ibáñez as a coach, will face on Tuesday in a vital match. With both teams on the edge of the precipice in the South American qualifier towards the 2026 World Cup, the victory is urgent.

EFE

After a promising premundialist start, the Vinotinto of Argentine coach Fernando ‘Bocha’ Batista deflated to collapse until the eighth place in the table, with 12 points in 13 days.

You need to open the parachute at home, at the Monumental Stadium of the hot Maturín, to stop its fall in Barrena.

There are already nine consecutive dates without winning, the last resort with a reverse 2-1 against Ecuador in Quito.

«We have to win at home whatever it is,» said Yeferson Soteldo, a companion of the Brazilian star Neymar in Santos and one of the most unbalanced soccer players of the Vinotinto squad.

The Inca selection, meanwhile, comes from defeating Bolivia 3-1 as host in Ibáñez’s debut at the head of the team, but it also does not have greater margin of error, located in the ninth box, with 10 units.

– Repechaje in the sights –

Argentina heads the qualifier with 28 points, ahead of Ecuador, with 22; Brazil, with 21; Uruguay and Paraguay, with 20 per head; and Colombia, which with 19 marks the border of access to direct places.

Bolivia follows them with 13, in a playful area.

«We are in time to correct, we are on the way, we are at a point of the repechage,» Batista said Monday at a press conference, which showed confidence in his players. «We cannot fail (…). I do not happen to me a defeat.

The DT reserved in the previous presentation pieces such as midfielders Yangel Herrera or José ‘El Brujo’ Martínez, habitual headlines that in the case of having received a yellow card would have been suspended.

The Vinotinto also recovers the Wilker Ángel central and the right side Jon Aramburu after fulfilling, precisely, punishments.

«He is a rival to which we have to win beyond local or visitor to continue with possibilities,» said Ibáñez. «Our game plan will not change,» he said.

In her first presentation, the old guard responded at a good level, with André Carrillo and Paolo Guerrero playing important roles.

«Neither of them will save anything, because the standings forces to win,» says Ibáñez.

– Probable alignments

Venezuela: Rafael Romo – Jon Aramburu, Nahuel Ferraresi, Wilker Ángel, Christian Makoun – José Martínez, Yangel Herrera – Jefferson Savarino, Telasco Segovia, Yeferson Soteldo – Solomon Rondón. DT: Fernando Batista.

Peru: Pedro Gallese – Luis Advíncula, Carlos Zambrano, Renzo Garcés, Marcos López – Pedro Aquino, Renato Tapia, André Carrillo – Andy Polo, Paolo Guerrero and Bryan Reyna. DT: Óscar Ibáñez.