La Roja thrashed Paraguay in their last challenge prior to the Copa América and the level of those led by Ricardo Gareca is exciting. The National Team refined certain details and took a step forward regarding the duels against Albania and France. But not only the collective performance had an increase, since there were two footballers who responded to the coach and earned their place in the eleven: Diego Valdés and Erick Pulgar.
The first was one of the figures in the meeting against the Guaraníes. América’s ’10’ experienced his first game under the direction of ‘Tigre’, he showed personality and was key in two scores: first, he created a screen for Víctor Dávila to open the account and, in the end, He sealed everything with a perfect assist to Eduardo Vargas to make it 3-0. “I want to do what I have been doing in Mexico”he said a few days ago in Juan Pinto Durán and this Tuesday he more than fulfilled it.
While, Pulgar also did not have the opportunity to go on the mini-tour of Europe last March due to a quadriceps injury., so his performance against Paraguay was decisive in proving to Gareca that he deserved the title. And he showed his well-known virtues, despite his lack of continuity: good positioning, defensive contribution and good punching. In addition, he started the play in La Roja’s first goal.
In this way, the Argentine strategist has a more or less defined eleven for the first match in the continental competition, which will be on Friday, June 20 against Peru. “I have more certainties than doubts because of the quality of players we have, because of the predisposition of the boys. “That does not mean that one can evaluate options for the start of the Cup, it is something that we have to see,” he declared.
