Match Report
12 points and 12 places separated them: Cienciano 5th with 27, Ayacucho 17th with 15. Ayacucho had been under-performing their position — 33rd on five-round form against 17th in the table. Per game in the league, Cienciano were scoring 1.47 and conceding 1.24, Ayacucho 0.78 and 1.5, against a competition average of 1.32 goals per team per game.
GioScore's database holds 4 meetings between the two: 1 for Cienciano, 1 for Ayacucho and 2 drawn, at 2.25 goals per meeting. Historically tight: 25% of the meetings went beyond two goals.
Estadio Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in Cusco staged the fixture, a ground that holds 42,056. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 2-1.
Goal scorers
Cienciano: Luis Benites (65'), Alejandro Hohberg (82') · Ayacucho: Franco Caballero (73')