Match Report
The table read 2nd (Ecuador, 29 pts) against 1st (Argentina, 38 pts), 9 points apart. Per game in the league, Ecuador were scoring 0.78 and conceding 0.28, Argentina 1.72 and 0.56, against a competition average of 1.02 goals per team per game.
Four consecutive draws preceded this one for Ecuador. Argentina carried a 6-game unbeaten run into this, having scored in 15 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Ecuador 7/15, Argentina 13/15.
The sides have met 11 times in the GioScore results database: 0 wins for Ecuador, 4 draws and 7 for Argentina, at 2.82 goals per meeting.
The match was played at Estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha in Guayaquil (capacity 59,283). On the scoreboard, Ecuador led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 1-0 the final score.
Goal scorers
Ecuador: Enner Valencia (45')