Match Report
The table gap was wide: 18 points between El Farolito (1st, 36 pts) and Sacramento Gold (3rd, 18 pts). Sacramento Gold's recent output lagged their position: 23rd on form over five rounds while 3rd in the table. Per game in the league, El Farolito were scoring 3.42 and conceding 0.25, Sacramento Gold 2.08 and 1.58, against a competition average of 2.01 goals per team per game.
Momentum sat with El Farolito, winners of their last ten, having scored in 10 consecutive games. The five-game form split read 15/15 points for El Farolito against 9/15 for Sacramento Gold.
The head-to-head ledger counts 4 games: 3 El Farolito wins, 0 for Sacramento Gold, 1 draw, at 2 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 25% of meetings won. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 25% of the meetings went over two goals.
Matthew J. Boxer Stadium in San Francisco staged the fixture, a ground that holds 3,500. El Farolito led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 2 goals for the 2-1 full-time score.