Peru and Chile were left owing emotions: pale draw in debut

Peru and Chile faced each other in the complement of date 1 of group A of the Copa América 2024 and although it promised a lot due to the great experience on their rosters, the match ended up being quite close. They tied without goals.

Although in most of the match there were not many dangerous arrivals, Chile was the one that began to try to score from the beginning of the first half and at 16 minutes perhaps the clearest play of the match came, as the star Alexis Sánchez had to open the marker, but failed to define in a great way. He was under the goal and sent it over.

Although it seemed that this was going to motivate both teams to go more on the attack, the truth is that they were

However, the match continued to be more of the same and from time to time both got closer, but they did not go beyond that.

The best was one from Marcelino Núñez in Chile in the 62nd minute, but it was not very dangerous and there was a shot by Paolo Guerrero with 20 minutes remaining, but Claudio Bravo was attentive to keep the ball.

The game was not dangerous and although there were constant changes in those decisive minutes, it did not have much effect for both, although Peru managed to add more intensity to cause that surprise.
With ten to go, Peru had a clear shot and it was thanks to an unmarked shot inside the area by Gianluca Lapadula, who finished, but Claudio Bravo was attentive, although he rebounded and Paolo Guerrero arrived to take the ball, but ended up missing after arriving with the studs to that action.

The counterattacks began to increase, but it was not enough to win and finally, they ended up drawing without goals in the complement of group A. Now, Peru will face Canada and Chile against the champion Argentina, matches that will be on June 25. due and the goal options were quite scarce and only in the 43rd minute did Peru have a chance with Miguel Araujo, but Claudio Bravo managed to save the Inca player’s header.

After equality in the first half, the second half caused expectations, as they were indebted to goals and dangerous actions that livened up the game.