Match Report
7 points and 2 places separated them: Barcelona Guayaquil 1st with 13, Santos 3rd with 6. Santos ranked just 19th in the league on five-round form despite their 3rd table position. Per game in the league, Barcelona Guayaquil were scoring 1.67 and conceding 0.5, Santos 1.33 and 1.5, against a competition average of 1.41 goals per team per game.
The five-game form split read 10/15 points for Barcelona Guayaquil against 4/15 for Santos.
The match was played at Estadio Monumental Banco Pichincha in Guayaquil (capacity 83,000). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 3-1.