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Manchester United’s Facundo Pellistri and Uruguay thumped Bolivia 5-0 to all however ebook their place within the quarter finals of Copa America.
The 15-time winners dominated the play as they’d 18 photographs to their opponents 4, and 9 have been on course.
Additionally they had the lion’s share of possession with 60% of the ball.
From a United perspective it was the wonderful work of winger Facundo Pellistri that basically caught the attention. The 22 yr previous’s future may be very a lot up within the air however these are the type of performances which may simply persuade Erik ten Hag that the younger winger has a future at Outdated Trafford.
Pellistri completed the match with a purpose and an help and terrorised the Bolivian left again all match lengthy.
He opened the scoring within the eighth minute when he reduce inside to bundle the ball dwelling from shut vary after a swap of play when the ball was performed deliciously throughout the purpose for the United winger to pounce.
Targets have by no means been an enormous a part of his recreation however one in a pleasant victory over Mexico and now one within the match itself might be displaying he’s lastly including ending to his recreation.
He would additionally seize an help within the 81st minute when he calmly discovered Actual Madrid’s Federico Valverde to slip within the fourth purpose of the match.
In 86 minutes of play, he was awarded a Sofascore score of 7.6 and had 34 touches of the ball.
He made 18 out of his 21 passes for a cross charge of 86% and two of those have been key passes, together with his help.
He was a risk all night and made three crosses, considered one of which discovered its meant goal. The Uruguayan additionally missed one other massive likelihood as he may have simply added one other purpose to his private tally.
One of many fast winger’s largest skillsets is his dribbling and he was profitable as soon as out of the 4 that he tried.
(statistics by way of sofascore.com)
The end result implies that Uruguay have six factors from six and are all however by way of as they high Group C over the USA and Panama, who each have three factors.
La Celeste will purpose to rubber stamp their progress after they tackle the USA on Monday (Tuesday morning UK time) and Pellistri will likely be aiming to proceed the positive kind that he has proven this summer season so far.
His wonderful play for his nationwide workforce can solely be a very good factor for United because it may power Erik ten Hag to present him an opportunity within the first workforce, particularly if no winger is purchased.
Alternatively, if United want to promote him, these excellent showings on an enormous stage like Copa America will solely bump up a possible switch payment for the Purple Devils.
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