Atletico Mitre secured a 2-0 victory over Ciudad de Bolivar in the Primera Nacional Regular Season round 23 on Saturday evening. The result moves the visitors further clear of trouble in the lower half of the table while the hosts remain in seventh place. It was a match where the away side made their chances count despite being outplayed in possession.
F. Cabral opened the scoring in the fifteenth minute, giving Atletico Mitre an early advantage that the home side struggled to shake off. Ciudad de Bolivar had the ball more often—59 per cent of the game—but could not find the target. By then the visitors had already settled into their shape, and when M. Maldonado added a second in the sixty-eighth minute, the contest was effectively over.
The home side had eight corners to four and launched more attacks, but the shots accuracy figure of zero tells the story. They could not cut through a defence that held firm. Atletico Mitre were more clinical, landing two shots on target from five attempts off target, and that efficiency proved decisive.
Substitutions came in the second half, with T. Fernandez and F. Mucignat brought on for the hosts in an attempt to change the game. But the yellow cards tell a different tale: six in total, four for the home side and two for the visitors, suggesting the match grew increasingly cagey as the away side tightened things up.
Atletico Mitre now sit twelfth with thirty-one points after twenty-eight games. The win extends a run of results that shows they are no longer the team that lost three in a row to Estudiantes. Meanwhile, Ciudad de Bolivar remain on thirty-eight points in seventh, but this result means they cannot look forward to an easy finish to the season.