Overview
- Seven players are out for Sunday’s Clausura closer: Renzo Garcés, Josué Estrada, Guillermo Enrique, Alessandro Burlamaqui, Ricardo Lagos, Matías Succar and Jean Pierre Archimbaud.
- Archimbaud was ruled out after knee surgery, and Garcés is being rested following national-team travel from Russia.
- Journalist reports indicate Néstor Gorosito plans to start goalkeeper Guillermo Viscarra against UTC, with Paolo Guerrero entering on a hot scoring run.
- Alianza needs a victory and a Cusco FC defeat to finish second in the accumulated table and take the Peru 2 Copa Libertadores spot.
- Pundits forecast an offseason overhaul—Diego Rebagliati says Hernán Barcos and several others will not continue—though the club has not announced departures, and Fabián Bustos criticized the season’s domestic focus.