Olimpia beat Sportivo Luqueño 3-0 at the Estadio Oswaldo Domingo Dribb in round ten of the Clausura. The hosts took control in the first half with two quick goals before Fernando Cardozo sealed things late on. Both sides sat on three points after three games, so this win lifted Olimpia above their visitors in the table.
Richard Ortiz opened the scoring in the forty-first minute, and Bernardo Romeo Benitez Farina added a second four minutes later. To be fair, Olimpia were moving into spaces Sportivo Luqueño had left behind, and that showed in the rhythm of their attacks. Francisco Mongelos picked up a yellow card on the half-hour mark, and Oscar Ruiz joined him in the book shortly after.
Cardozo made it three in the seventy-seventh minute, ending a barren spell for Olimpia's attack. The visitors had only one shot on target all game — eight for their opponents — and that gap told the story of the afternoon. By then Olimpia had already worked several short corners, though only two went in as a result.
Substitutions came thick and fast. Olimpia brought on Rodney Redes, Tomás Muro and Santiago Ocampos Ibarra together in the sixtieth minute, while Lucas Morales replaced a guest earlier in the second half. Fernando Cardozo himself was taken off in the seventy-ninth, replaced by Eduardo Delmas. Aldo Maiz came on for Olimpia in the eighty-sixth, and the match wound down without further incident.
Statistics backed up what the eye saw. Olimpia recorded 116 attacks against 93, and their shots accuracy sat at fifty per cent while Sportivo Luqueño managed eleven. Failed passes were heavy on both sides — 81 for the hosts, 75 for the visitors — but Olimpia's 406 successful passes outweighed the 299 from their opponents. We had backed the away side with seventy-five per cent confidence, but the match went another way entirely.
Olimpia moved clear at the top of their section on five points, while Sportivo Luqueño stayed on three after three defeats. The goal difference now separated them by two goals, and that is enough to matter when the run-in starts. And here's the thing — three clean goals from eight shots on target is not luck, it is structure.