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2:0
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In the Primera División game on 1 August 2026, Trujillanos FC beat UCV 2:0. Match numbers: shots on target 6:3, corners 6:3.
Match report
Trujillanos defeated UCVI 2:0 in the first round of the Clausura phase of the Primera league on 1 August 2026. The hosts took all three points despite playing with ten men for nearly half the match. And here's the thing about results like this — they rarely look as comfortable as the final score suggests.
E. Gnemmi opened the scoring on the stroke of half-time, but the momentum shifted immediately after. G. Mottes collected a second yellow and was sent off in the 45th minute plus three, followed by J. Da Silva's dismissal forty-seven minutes in. By then the visitors had already been reduced to ten, and the match opened up in ways neither manager anticipated.
Trujillanos kept their composure and added a second through E. Abreu in the 79th minute. He was booked shortly after, but the goal extended a lead that had looked fragile after the double red. The visitors found themselves chasing the game with nothing to show for their territorial advantage.
Statistics tell a story the scoreboard alone cannot. UCVI held 60 per cent possession and completed 417 passes against 273 for the hosts, yet managed only three shots on target. Trujillanos registered six on target from three big chances created, while the visitors produced just one. Shots accuracy tells its own tale — 40 per cent compared to 20.
The result leaves Trujillanos at 14th with 11 points from 21 games, while UCVI remain seventh on 31. It is not much to celebrate for either side, but the gap between them in the table remains unbridgeable without a sustained run of form. To be fair, this was a match decided in moments rather than minutes.
Prepared from match data
Key numbers
Possession, %40–60
Shots on target6–3
Shots off target5–6
Big chances3–1
HT🟨11' A. Abet — Yellow card⇄19' M. Granados — Substitution🟨31' G. Mottes — Yellow card🟨36' J. Vivas — Yellow card⚽45' E. Gnemmi — Goal🟨45+3' G. Mottes — Yellow card🟥45+3' G. Mottes — Red card⇄46' W. Lugo — Substitution🟥47' J. Da Silva — Red card⇄59' A. Abet — Substitution⇄75' L. Mosquera — Substitution⇄76' A. Gonzalez — Substitution⚽79' E. Abreu — Goal🟨80' E. Abreu — Yellow card⇄81' E. Mosquera — Substitution⇄83' F. Sole — Substitution🟨90+2' C. Atamanuk — Yellow card
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