Match Report
Sporting Cristal went into the game 3rd in the table on 4 points; Racing Club sat 1st on 14 — a 10-point gap. Sporting Cristal ranked just 23rd in the league on five-round form despite their 3rd table position. Per game in the league, Sporting Cristal were scoring 0.5 and conceding 1.67, Racing Club 1.5 and 0.33, against a competition average of 1.41 goals per team per game.
Four consecutive wins preceded this game for Sporting Cristal, having scored in 6 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Sporting Cristal 13/15, Racing Club 7/15.
The match was played at Estadio Nacional de Lima in Lima (capacity 45,574). On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 0-2.