Match Report
1 points and 0 places separated them: El Nacional 5th with 11, Libertad 5th with 10. Recent form told a different story for El Nacional: only 18th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 5th. Per game in the league, El Nacional were scoring 1.33 and conceding 2.33, Libertad 1.2 and 1.5, against a competition average of 1.28 goals per team per game.
Three consecutive wins preceded this game for Libertad, having scored in 6 consecutive games. From the last five rounds, El Nacional held 5 points of 15 and Libertad 13.
The sides have met 5 times in the GioScore results database: 4 wins for El Nacional, 0 draws and 1 for Libertad, at 3 goals per meeting. Only 20% of these meetings ended in a home win. History points to goals: 60% of the meetings had three or more.
Olimpico Atahualpa in Quito staged the fixture, a ground that holds 35,742. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 2-2.
Goal scorers
El Nacional: Djorkaeff Reasco (27'), Djorkaeff Reasco (78') · Libertad: Iván Zambrano (37'), Carlos Arboleda (46')