Cajamarca edge past Cometiamentos in seven-goal thriller
Cajamarca beat Cometiamentos 3-2 at the Estadio Juan Maldonado Gamarra in the Clausura round seven of the Primera División. The visitors took an early lead and held on despite a second-half fightback from the home side. M. Arrasco opened the scoring for Cajamarca after just ten minutes, following M. Rasmussen's opening goal seven minutes in. Cometiamentos pulled back through J. Olivares and a penalty from R. Vilca before Arrasco's late strike secured the away win.
F. Alcedo had a goal ruled out for offside in the seventeenth minute, a moment that clearly shifted the momentum. Cometiamentos pressed hard for an equaliser, but Cajamarca's defence held firm. The home side brought on three players at half-time, including J. Herrera and W. Ayovi, hoping to change the complexion of the game. By then, the visitors had already established enough of a cushion to weather the storm.
Olivares brought Cometiamentos back into contention in the fifty-second minute, and Vilca converted a penalty shortly after. The home side pushed forward, but Cajamarca found a way through on the counter. Arrasco's eighty-ninth-minute goal was the decisive blow, finishing off a match where Cometiamentos had all the possession but none of the cutting edge. The support of the fans could be called devoted, but that is an assessment, not a fact.
Cometiamentos dominated possession at seventy-two per cent and registered 104 attacks, yet their shot accuracy sat at just nineteen per cent. They fired twelve shots off target and five on target, while Cajamarca managed six shots on target from just twenty attempts. The home side created two big chances but failed to convert, whereas the visitors were more clinical when it mattered. Many shots with one goal means chances went begging, and that was the story of the evening.
Cometiamentos sit eleventh with twenty-nine points from twenty-four games, while Cajamarca are sixteenth with twenty-four. The result extends Cajamarca's poor run without a win, having lost three of their last five matches. Cometiamentos have shown more consistency, with victories against UTC and Cusco in recent weeks. The gap between them remains five points, and neither side looks likely to climb far from where they are now.
