Cusco vs Alianza Atl.

Cusco's altitude, a factor worth more than a statistic Cusco play above three thousand four hundred metres, one of the most forbidding elevations in South American football. For a coastal side like Alianza Atlético, based in Sullana at close to sea level, adaptation is the trip's main difficulty: the thin air tells above all in the last thirty minutes, when the visitors' legs grow heavy. Two similar profiles on paper In the just-concluded Apertura, Cusco finished sixth with twenty-one goals scored and twenty-four conceded, Alianza Atlético eighth with twenty and eighteen: close figures that on paper would make the tie balanced. It's the environmental context that tips the scales toward the hosts, and the prospect of Cusco avoiding defeat I read at around 74%. A preview with altitude as the main key.