The 2022 World Cup South America World Preliminary Tournament has ended 16 rounds of competition, with 2 rounds of no matches remaining, Peru, with 6 wins, 3 draws and 7 losses accumulating 21 points, is temporarily ranked 5th, scoring a total of 17 goals and conceding 21 goals. In the 17th round, Peru will play away to Uruguay, who are provisionally in fourth place, and in the final round, Peru will host Paraguay, which has lost its hopes of qualifying early.
In this World Preliminary Tournament, there are a total of 4.5 qualifying places in the South American region, the top four teams in the 18 rounds of the World Preliminary Tournament will directly get the World Cup ticket, and the fifth team will meet the team from the Asian region in the intercontinental play-off, and the intercontinental play-off will use a win-loss method to determine the team that will advance to the 2022 World Cup.
Judging by the current situation, Peru is likely to eventually become the 5th or even 4th place in South America.
Peru has previously participated in five World Cups, most recently in 2018.
In the 2018 World Cup in Russia, Peru was in the same group as France, Denmark and Australia, and after losing to Denmark and France by the same score of 0-1, Peru defeated Australia 2-0 in the last group stage, and Peru, which won 1 and lost 2, finally failed to qualify from the group. At that time, the goals for Peru in the 2018 World Cup were Guerrero and Carrillo.
Today, four years later, Guerrero is a 38-year-old veteran, and the Peruvian national team goal record holder has only made five appearances in this World Preliminary Tournament, and has not scored. After leaving Brazil International in October 2021, the striker has yet to find a new owner.
The 30-year-old Carrillo is still the absolute main force in the Peruvian squad in this World Preliminary Tournament, making 13 appearances, all of which are starting appearances and scoring 3 goals. Carrillo, who has traveled in the Portuguese Premier League and the Premier League, is currently playing for Saudi Arabian team Riyadh Crescent.
In this World Preliminary Tournament, the player who scored the most goals in the Peruvian squad was the small Cueva, who has scored 5 goals. Queeva, who has played in the Bajia, Russian Super League, Turkish Super League and other leagues, is currently playing in the Saudi League and playing for The Hassan Conquest.
At present, the most familiar player in this Peruvian squad is Rappadura.
Rapadula, who played for AC Milan, was born in Turin, Italy, to an Italian father and a mother from Peru. Rapadula was selected for the Italian national team but did not play for Italy in an official tournament such as the World Preliminary Tournament, which allowed him to reserve the possibility of playing for Peru. On November 13, 2020, in peru's away world cup against Chile, Rapadula came off the bench and made his debut for the Peruvian national team.
So far, he has scored 5 goals in 18 appearances for the Peruvian national team, including 2 goals in 11 appearances in this World Preliminary Tournament, becoming an important scorer for Peru in the front line.
Rapadula joined AC Milan after winning the Serie B Golden Boot in Pescara in 2015–16, where he scored eight goals for AC Milan in 1253 minutes of playing time in the 2016–17 Serie A season. The 32-year-old plays for Serie B side Benevento and currently leads the Serie B top scorers list with 10 goals.
Peru finished 4th in the 2021 Copa America, when Rapadula, who represented Peru for the first time in the big tournament, performed well, scoring three goals in the Copa America. After representing Peru at the 2021 Copa America, LaPadura is now getting closer to realizing her dream of competing in the World Cup.