Overview
- The match is scheduled for Friday at 8:00 p.m. (Peru time) at Estadio Alejandro Villanueva in Lima and will be broadcast in Peru by América TV and América TV GO and in Bolivia by UNITEL.
- The Peruvian federation confirmed the squad completed a final training session at Matute, with team routines and a pre-match talk planned before kickoff.
- Mano Menezes is using the game to try a new, younger starting eleven and probe attacking and defensive options, with Pedro Gallese and Gianluca Lapadula among the provisional starters published after training.
- Bolivia coach Óscar Villegas said the fixture will be used to evaluate players and raised the topic of playing at altitude while lamenting goalkeeper Guillermo Viscarra’s lack of club activity; FPF sporting director Jean Ferrari publicly rejected Villegas’s claim that Peru is copying Bolivia’s model.
- Both teams arrive under pressure from recent heavy defeats and will use the friendly to build confidence, assess new talent for continental competition and explore whether home matches at high-altitude venues offer a practical advantage going into qualifiers.