The Venezuela coach, José Peseiro, he assured this Saturday that Sunday's duel against Peru for the fifth and final day of group B of the Copa América will be “a fighting match.”
“For tomorrow, the team has prepared within the ideas, the resources and what we think we can do at this moment. Tomorrow. we have a fighting, organization and sacrifice match. Also to attack, because we want to attack, “he said. Peseiro at the press conference prior to the game, according to the Venezuelan Football Federation (FVF).
To that party Venezuela arrives with two points, the result of two draws with Colombia and Ecuador, after starting their career with a defeat against Brazil (3-0), but also cwith eight players recovered after overcoming covid-19, disease that was detected in the first test they did when they landed in Brasilia.
It is also doubt one of the great figures of La Vinotinto, Yeferson Soteldo, who has not been able to play a single minute of the America's Cup due to an injury, but who has already joined the training sessions.
For its part, Peru arrives with four points and one foot in the quarters In the end, although a defeat, added to a victory for Ecuador against Brazil, could bring him down from the next phase.
On Soteldo, Peseiro affirmed that “it comes from an injury and he has trained three times with us “so he will have to evaluate if he can play at the necessary pace.
“I have to evaluate well and put the players who have conditions to play and manage if they can do it all the time, or not,” said the Portuguese, whose ability to rebuild the team after the covid outbreak and the injury of his stars It has earned him multiple accolades in Venezuela.
Peseiro He also said that he hopes “to be able to choose those” players that he thinks “can contribute more to the team at this time.”
“The doubts we have regarding the situation of the players who recovered, is that they were unemployed for ten days,” he stressed.
Regarding his rival, he commented that in Venezuela they are aware “of the strength it has”, but stressed that they also know that “the mental strength of the group “that makes up La Vinotinto and “the will to be in the quarterfinals” is great.
“That's why we have to respect him because he has good things, but without fear,” he concluded.