Academia Cantolao secured a 3-2 victory over Deportivo Llacuabamba in the Regular Season round 17 of the Segunda División, played on September 5th. The home side took the lead through J. Martinez in the twelfth minute before A. Olmedo equalised for the visitors thirteen minutes later. By then the match was already showing signs of being decided by moments rather than sustained pressure.
J. Gomez restored Cantolao's advantage just before the break with a forty-fifth-minute strike, but Q. Guadalupe responded early in the second half to level matters at fifty-eight minutes. P. Pizuri then ended the visitors' hope of a point with a late eightieth-minute goal, though he was substituted off himself two minutes later.
Cantolao did not dominate possession, holding just thirty-seven percent of the ball, yet they outshot Llacuabamba on target six times to two. The visitors registered one hundred and forty attacks against ninety-two, but that territorial advantage meant little when the final whistle blew. And here's the thing — it is rarely the team with the most possession that wins these games.
There were five yellow cards between them, with J. Martinez and J. Leudo picking up cautions for Cantolao while G. Iraola and D. Cabello joined J. Anicama Lujan on the visitors' sheet. Llacuabamba made five substitutions compared to Cantolao's three, with P. Oba coming on first in the sixty-fifth minute.
The result keeps Llacuabamba in second place on twenty-seven points from fifteen games, while Cantolao remain eighth with thirteen points. The visitors have not won since their three-zero victory over Universidad San Martín on August first, and this result extends that run without a victory.