Match Report
4 points and 4 places separated them: Universitario 1st with 20, Sporting Cristal 5th with 16. The last five rounds placed Sporting Cristal no better than 23rd for form, against 5th in the standings. Scoring rates set the scale: Universitario 2.11 scored and 1.33 conceded per game, Sporting Cristal 1.89 and 1, with the league averaging 1.38.
The sides have met 8 times in the GioScore results database: 5 wins for Universitario, 2 draws and 1 for Sporting Cristal, at 3.13 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 63% of the meetings. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 75% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 63%.
Estadio Monumental, capacity 80,093, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-1.
Goal scorers
Universitario: Gianluca Lapadula (72') · Sporting Cristal: Andrea Sentimenti (81')
Key stats
Possession: Universitario 43% · Sporting Cristal 57% · Total shots: 14-7 · On target: 3-2 · Corners: 2-4