After losing their last 3 games and not scoring goals: can the ‘U’ win the Clausura?

This weekend the date 7 of the Closing Tournament is played and Universitario will receive Binacional at the Monumental Stadium. Those led by Carlos Compagnucci are going through a complicated football moment, since they haven’t won for three games and haven’t scored goals either. As if that were not enough, his position in the table is not at all encouraging, since he is in ninth place with seven units and the leader Cienciano (14 points) has a wide advantage.

While the goal of the student cadre is to win the 27th star by the end of the year, this seems to be a bit far due to the moment that is happening. In order to aspire to the title, the creams must win the Clausura or, in any case, be among the first two places in the accumulated table and thus dispute the play-offs. In the absence of 12 dates to be played, does University have a chance of winning the second contest of the year?

One of the aspects that has cost Universitario this season is winning away. In the Apertura, the creams played eight duels in that condition, of which five were losses, two wins and one draw. While, in the remainder of the Clausura, those from Ate they need to play six away from home, one of them is in the height of Huancayo and another in the heat of Piura. Although three matches are in the Lima plain, the rivals will be Alianza Lima, Sporting Cristal and Sport Boys.

Another point against meringues is that of the 12 teams that he still has to face, 5 surpass them in the standings (Lima Alliance, Sporting Cristal, Binational, Atlético Grau and Melgar) and three others have the same score (Sport Boys, ADT and Alianza Atlético), so the fight will be constant in each game.

In addition, in the last stretch of the championship, the duels will be closed, knowing that they are also competing for a place in international competitions and, for the moment, the ‘U’ is out of the first eight places in the aggregate.

After the departure of their striker Alex Valera, the students have had problems facing the definition. The last four matches in which the Peruvian team was not present, Universitario only won one and lost the other three. The most worrying thing is that those led by Carlos Compagnucci had goal situations, but Alexander Succar and the other attackers could not inflate the nets of the rival goal. Likewise, the Argentine strategist cannot hire another striker because the transfer market has already closed in our territory.

These three factors exposed lines above show that the ‘U’ has little chance of winning the Torneo Clausura. Even more so, knowing that his rivals who surpass him in the table have been adding points in the last three matches and, even, the lost matches of the merengues were against direct opponents (César Vallejo, Municipal and Cienciano).

Source-larepublica.pe