I think a lot of us are severely overrating Peru, they're better than us but they're not God's XI or anything. Reid is 100% in the top three players, if it wasn't for Farfan's return to form Reid would be the best on the park on paper. He's also playing for the biggest club out of anyone in either team.
I don't think you can overrate the 10th ranked team in the world
...FIFA managed it...
so did the Elo ranking....
Its hard to know how good Peru will be against non Conmebol opposition. Under the current coach they have mostly only played South American teams (30 out of 36 games).
Out of roughly 36 games only 6 games have been against Concacaf teams (4 wins and 1 draw). Only one official game vs Haiti, which they took a while to eventually break down.
2017 - friendly - won 3-1 vs Jamaica at home (Flores, Tapia, Guerrero)
2016 - Copa America - won 1-0 vs Haiti (Guerrero)
2016 - friendly - won 4-0 vs Trinidad and Tobago (Cueva, da Silva, Flores, Benavente)
2016 - friendly - won 3-1 vs El Salvador (Ruidiaz, Polo, Yotun)
2015 - friendly - lost 2-1 vs USA (Chavez)
2015 - friendly - draw 1-1 vs Mexico (Farfan)