Águila beat Fuerte San Francisco 4-1 in the seventh round of the Apertura tournament on Saturday evening. The hosts took control quickly and never looked back, though the visitors did manage to get on the scoresheet late on. Both sides entered the match with identical records — one win, three draws, three losses, six points — sitting tenth and eleventh in the table.
The opening goal came in the nineteenth minute when C. Martinez found the net, and here's the thing: Águila didn't let up. F. Andrada doubled the lead just before half-time with a forty-fifth-minute strike, then added another in the forty-eighth. By then the match was effectively over, though Andrada completed his hat-trick in the sixty-eighth minute. B. Amaya pulled one back for the visitors in ninety-fourth, but it was too little, too late.
The statistics tell you what the eye saw. Águila dominated possession at sixty-two percent, registered one hundred and sixty-four attacks against ninety-five, and registered five shots on target compared to three. The visitors managed only two corners to eight, and picked up five yellow cards — five bookings in a match where they rarely threatened. Things came to a head in the final moments, but Águila had already secured what they needed.
The result keeps both teams in the same position, separated by a single place. Águila remain tenth, Fuerte San Francisco eleventh, both on six points after seven games. The hosts cannot afford another slip if they want to climb, and this was a chance they took properly. Three-and-a-half goals from Andrada alone suggests something clicked in attack, but the overall performance — the attacks, the possession — was the real story.
