Giancarlo Granda’s Critical Comments on Three Peru Players After Copa América 2024 Defeat against Canada

Giancarlo Granda targeted three Peru players after defeat against Canada for Copa América 2024.

The Peruvian team was defeated 1-0 by Canada on matchday 2 of group A of the Copa América 2024, weakening its hopes in the tournament in the absence of facing the current champion, Argentina. Several players were singled out after this negative result, especially the older ones. In that sense, Giancarlo Granda harshly criticized three soccer players for their performance on the field of Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas, United States.

First he downplayed the entry of Christian Cueva and emphasized other elements. “They were worried about Cueva, when there is more than one player who consistently has a worse level than him,” he said in the first instance through his Twitter account.

That was when the sports journalist did not hesitate to criticize the work of three soccer players from the national team for their poor performance against the Americans.

“What happened with André Carrillo and Anderson Santamaría is very poor, and although it hurts more than one, TODAY Paolo Guerrero was more transcendent than Lapadula. Eliminated,” he added.

Giancarlo Granda and his tweet about the criticism of three Peruvian players after their defeat against Canada in the 2024 Copa América.

The Peruvian team started as favorites for the clash with Canada. And after the goalless draw with Chile in the debut of the Copa América 2024, it was the golden opportunity for the national team to prevail against a rival with less football history.

The starting eleven was the same as against the ‘southerns’, with the exception of the inclusion of Marcos López for a sense Luis Advíncula. Those led by Jorge Fossati managed to generate several scoring opportunities, although Gianluca Lapadula was not good in the definition. The ‘Bambino’ had four shots, one on goal, another that was blocked by the rival goalkeeper and one that went wide, showing a lower level than his usual level.

For the second half, the Uruguayan coach made modifications, considering the expulsion of Miguel Araujo. He brought in Bryan Reyna, Christian Cueva, Paolo Guerrero, Anderson Santamaría and André Carrillo. However, the last two struggled with the pace of the game: the defender was exposed in several counterattacks by the Canadians, while the ‘Snake’ could not show the explosiveness of before and was not able to be a protagonist in the generation of play.

The ‘Predator’ won 10 of the 13 individual duels he had, both aerial and on the field, while ‘Aladino’ took a dangerous shot that could have been the tying goal and, as far as possible, tried to be dangerous in creation.

Copa América 2024 – Peru vs Canada – Match summary

André Carrillo emphasized that Peru’s defeat against Canada was due to the expulsion of Miguel Araujo. “Clearly the expulsion conditions us. At these levels it gets complicated but I feel like we played a good game. Probably a large part of the game was ours until before the expulsion but we have to lift our heads, there is one more game that we know will be complicated,” he mentioned.

In the same way, he recognized the toughness of the ‘reds’, who despite losing against Argentina, put up a fight. “He is a super competitive rival. We watched the game against Argentina and today they showed it. We have to look forward, it hurts to lose like this but we know we have one more game,” he declared.

Finally, the Al Qadisiyah player from Saudi Arabia acknowledged that it was difficult for him to enter against the Canadians due to the pace of the game, however, it had nothing to do with the infernal heat.

“It has been a long time since I played with the national team, a little choked because the pace of the game was high but I felt good and I feel that I can contribute to the national team. The temperatures are high, I am used to it, but the weather was for both of them and they were able to take advantage when they had one more,” he said.

The ‘Culebra’ expressed his feelings about the defeat of the ‘bicolor’ against the Americans. (Video: DSports)
2024-06-26 20:30:00
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