Bolivia 1 - Peru 1

Peru decided to bring a team full of local players accustomed to playing in altitude during their club football seasons to high-altitude La Paz in order to face Bolivia on the road.  The tactic seemed to work early on as Peru completely dominated the match in the first half.  Bolivia defender Cristian Vargas forgot to take the ball with him as he moved up the field, allowing a sprinting Juan Elias Cominges to fire at goal, but goalkeeper Hugo Suarez made the save.  All the heaps of pressure applied by Peru finally resulted in the breakthrough twenty minutes into the match.  Juan Carlos Mariño walked up to a ball slowly thirty-five yards away.  Mariño saw that no one was applying coming to close him down, so he took a confident rip and off the ball went into the upper ninety throw the hands of a diving Suarez.  Peru took the 1-0 lead into the second half.

Bolivia finally had a shot on goal six minutes into the second half, and what a shot it was.  Marcelo Martins laid a ball off from the half circle to an oncoming Alejandro Chumacero, who on the dead run unleashed a laser into the exact corner were Mariño's goal had entered.  Each side had now scored a wonder strike in a 1-1 match.  The field must have been tilted toward one side because in the second half Bolivia had all the offensive opportunities.  Martins had a crack with fifteen minutes to play, but his twenty-four yard strike connected flush with the post.  Neither team managed a second goal.  The 1-1 draw really does not serve either team well on their respective journeys to Brasil 2014.

Goals
Peru
Juan Carlos Mariño 21

Bolivia
Alejandro Chumacero 51

Match Reports:
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/news/peru-field-reserves-high-altitude-bolivia-223427165.html
http://sifutbol.com/bolivia-1-peru-1-un-resultado-que-no-conforma-a-ninguno/

Highlights:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkZGIErsoH8