Match Report
5 points and 2 places separated them: Barcelona Guayaquil 6th with 43, Macará 4th with 48. On recent form Macará sat only 8th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 4th overall. Per game in the league, Barcelona Guayaquil were scoring 1.07 and conceding 0.83, Macará 1.38 and 1.14, against a competition average of 1.13 goals per team per game.
Macará entered with three wins in a row, having scored in 8 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Barcelona Guayaquil 5/15, Macará 12/15.
GioScore's database holds 9 meetings between the two: 4 for Barcelona Guayaquil, 2 for Macará and 3 drawn, at 2.33 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 33% of meetings won. These meetings skew tight — only 33% saw more than two goals.
The match was played at Estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha (capacity 59,283). Macará led 2-0 at the break, and the second half added 1 goal for the 1-2 full-time score.
Goal scorers
Barcelona Guayaquil: Sergio Díaz (54') · Macará: Mateo Viera (15'), Mateo Viera (37')
Key stats
Possession: Barcelona Guayaquil 64% · Macará 36% · Total shots: 15-13 · On target: 1-7 · Corners: 6-2