This weekend will be played the last date of Liga 1 Betsson and the teams classified to the Copa Libertadores will be defined. César Vallejo is one of the teams fighting to enter this tournament, along with Universitario de Deportes and FBC Melgar. Emiliano Ciucci, defender of the poet team, stated that they will seek to qualify for the Libertadores as Peru 3.
"When the option of winning the championship was no longer possible, our main objective is to achieve third place. We know that we have to win this weekend and wait for a result in the Universitario vs. Melgar match," said the Argentine.
"The fact that the two rivals face each other in the last match is important for us, but only if we can win. We know that for us and for Binacional it is a final, each one fighting for their own, but with the interest of the three points," he added.
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Furthermore, he highlighted the triumph of the Trujillo team over Alianza Universidad in the 16th match of Phase 2. "We achieved a very important victory yesterday against a rival that we knew was in need, it is a similar situation to the one we will have to face with Binacional this weekend."
Ciucci was also self-critical of the performance shown by UCV in the 2021 season. "It has been an irregular year for us. In the first part of the year, it was the best, but even so, we did not have the regularity we would have liked, we fell just short of playing the final. Phase 2 was even more irregular," he said.
César Vallejo has 41 points and is in fourth place in the accumulated table. The team led by 'Chemo' Del Solar will face Deportivo Binacional in the last round of the tournament.