Barcelona SC ‘has terrible numbers in Lima for the Copa Libertadores’, according to the Peruvian press

With any argument, the Peruvian press tries to encourage Universitario de Deportes, a squad that lost 2-0 in Guayaquil and this Wednesday will try to beat Barcelona Sporting Club in the return game of the second round of the Copa Libertadores preliminary round.

The mission is complicated because Barcelona has never stayed on the sidelines of the Libertadores when it has rivaled clubs from Peru in direct elimination matches. Supremacy is yellow.

To raise the spirits of the popular Lima team, the daily libero published a note titled ‘Barcelona SC and its lousy numbers in Lima for the Copa Libertadores that motivate the U’, and added that “Universitario today will look for the feat in the National Stadium against Barcelona SC, a rival that has never been able to win in our territory for Copa Libertadores”.

Barcelona always advances

Although the statistical data is real, another approach to the numbers proposed by the newspaper is that in the only duel by direct elimination between both teams, the Canaries dispatched Universitario from the Cup, in 1993.

In addition, although Barcelona has never won in Lima, it is also true that their two presentations ended with a loss by the minimum difference and a draw in white. At home there is no overwhelming superiority of Universitario and the Peruvian team has already suffered an elimination against its opponent on Wednesday.

libero He says that “regarding this match, there is no less detail that motivates the ‘U’. Barcelona SC arrived in the Peruvian capital with negative statistics playing against Peruvian clubs for the Copa Libertadores. The Idol of the Shipyard has never been able to win in our territory, recording two losses and one draw. The rivals he faced were the ‘U’ and Cristal”.

for the slightest difference

The first time that the Canarians met in Lima with Universitario was on April 7, 1993, for the first leg of the Libertadores. The homeowner trained with Patrick Zubczuk; César Charún, Marcelo Asteggiano, Juan Reynoso, José Luis Carranza; Jorge Amado Nunes, Juan Carlos Bazalar, Roberto Martínez (Ricardo Besada), Andrés González (Freddy Torrealva); Ronald Baroni, Tomas Silva.

José Francisco Cevallos played for Barcelona; Tony Gómez, Byron Tenorio, Jimmy Montanero (Raúl Noriega), Claudio Alcívar; José Gavica (Gilson de Souza), Héctor Carabalí, Julio César Rosero, Insúa; Carlos Munoz, Raul Aviles.

With many difficulties he was able to submit 2-1 Universitario to Barcelona. Silva opened the account at 10 minutes, at 55 Gavica equalized, and Torrealva sealed the account at 57 minutes. In the second leg of the round of 16, the yellows defeated the creams with a 3-0 win to qualify 4-2 on aggregate.

0-0 in Lima

In 1994, in the group stage, Universitario could not beat Barcelona in a duel that ended 0-0. On April 8, at the National Stadium in Lima, the bullfighters lined up with Víctor Mendoza; Gomez, Tenorio, Montanero, Alcivar; José María Martínez, Carabalí, Wilson Macías, Jaime Pizarro; Gavica (Nixon Carcelen), Aviles.

libero remember, finally, another defeat for Barcelona in Lima, against Sporting Cristal. It was just 2-1 in the second leg of the second round of the preliminary round of the Cup, on February 13, 2020. A week before, the Canaries beat the Peruvians 4-0. (D)