Universitario beat Cultural Santa Rosa 3-0 in the Clausura round six at Estadio Monumental on Saturday night. The hosts kept their second-place position in the Primera División while the visitors dropped further behind in fourth. By then the gap between them had widened to four points.
Universitario started steadily enough, with A. Quintana picking up a yellow card after three minutes and J. Requena following six minutes later. The breakthrough came in the twenty-sixth minute when G. Lapadula found the net. C. Fara went to the referee's book just before half-time, and F. Torres would not be so lucky after the restart.
Torres received his red card in the fifty-first minute, leaving Cultural Santa Rosa with ten men for the remainder of the game. That changed the complexion of things, and here's the thing — once the numerical advantage appeared, Universitario began to press more seriously. M. Di Benedetto was cautioned in the fifty-fifth minute, and A. Vasquez added his name to the disciplinary list in the sixty-seventh.
The second goal arrived from the penalty spot in the seventieth minute, scored by A. Valera. Lapadula added a third in the seventy-sixth minute before being substituted himself in the eighty-first alongside Quiroz. Valera came off in the eighty-eighth minute, and Concha and Requena had already been replaced in the seventy-third.
The statistics tell a straightforward story. Universitario held 61 per cent possession and registered 13 shots on target compared with Cultural Santa Rosa's zero. The hosts created three big chances while the visitors managed none. Passes into the final third came 113 to 25, and the attack count reflected the same disparity — 141 against 60.
Universitario remain second with 45 points from 24 games, while Cultural Santa Rosa sit fourth on 41 points. The hosts have not won since their last match before this one, and this result extends that run in their favour. Cup football has its own rules, but this was league football, and the table now shows what the match confirmed.
