Match Report
6 points and 1 places separated them: Venezuela 8th with 18, Peru 9th with 12. Against a league average of 1.02 goals per team per game, Venezuela ran at 1 scored and 1.56 conceded, Peru at 0.33 and 1.17.
Venezuela entered with three losses in a row, having scored in 6 consecutive games. From the last five rounds, Venezuela held 1 points of 15 and Peru 7.
7 meetings are on record — 1 won by Venezuela, 4 by Peru, 2 drawn, at 1.71 goals per meeting. Only 29% of these meetings ended in a home win. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 29% of the meetings went over two goals.
C. Garay took charge of the match — our records show 100 games refereed with an average of 2.6 yellow cards per game. The venue was Estadio Monumental de Maturín in Maturín, with room for 51,796 spectators. Venezuela led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-0.
Goal scorers
Venezuela: Salomón Rondón (41')