Real Garcilaso on top of Peruvian Clausura after 3 rounds

Real Garcilaso leads the classification of the Peruvian Clausura tournament, despite starting with a disappointing 2-2 draw at home against Sport Huancayo in the first round. In the next rounds, Real Garcilaso won brightly 4-1 away at Binacional and 3-1 at home against Sport Rosario, achieving 7 points after the first three rounds, the same as Universidad de San Martin, FBC Melgar and Deportivo Municipal, but overcoming them in the classification due to the better goal difference.

Real Garcilaso continues the good results which characterized the last rounds of Apertura. The Uruguayan manager Tabare Silva used the same starting XI in both winning matches versus Binacional and Sport Rosario: Ortiz - Arismendi, Kontogiannis, Dulanto, Cossio - Aucca, Archimbaud - Vidales, Ramua, Santillan - Rengifo.

It should be noted that this starting XI only includes two foreign players, Kontogiannis and Ramua, instead of three, as allowed by the Peruvian FA. Tabare Silva is very pleased with both the goalkeeper Ortiz and the newly-arrived striker Rengifo and decided to leave both Argentinian goalkeeper Morales and striker Alessandrini on the bench, although Alessandrini substituted Rengifo in the second half in both matches. Another change is the use of Aucca as the young player instead of right back Velasquez, which allowed Arismendi to play in that position.

The results of the Clausura so far:

Round 1 (31 August – 2 September 2018)

UTC – Universidad de San Martín 0-0

Comerciantes Unidos – Ayacucho 0-3 (awarded; 0-2 at half-time when suspended)

Sporting Cristal – Sport Boys 4-0

Real Garcilaso – Sport Huancayo 2-2

FBC Melgar – Universitario de Deportes 2-1

Deportivo Municipal – Binacional 1-0

Academia Cantolao – Unión Comercio 2-1

Alianza Lima – Sport Rosario 1-0

Round 2 (11-12 September 2018)

Binacional – Real Garcilaso 1-4

Ayacucho – FBC Melgar 0-0

Sport Huancayo – Comerciantes Unidos 1-0

Universitario de Deportes – UTC 2-1

Universidad de San Martín – Academia Cantolao 3-2

Unión Comercio – Sporting Cristal 2-1

Sport Rosario – Deportivo Municipal 0-1

Sport Boys – Alianza Lima – postponed

Round 3 (15-17 September 2018)

Universidad de San Martín – Unión Comercio 2-0

UTC – Ayacucho 0-0

FBC Melgar – Sport Huancayo 3-2

Academia Cantolao – Universitario de Deportes 2-0

Comerciantes Unidos – Binacional 1-2

Alianza Lima – Sporting Cristal 2-2

Real Garcilaso – Sport Rosario 3-1

Deportivo Municipal – Sport Boys 0-0

Table

1	Real Garcilaso	3	2	1	0	9-4	7
2	Universidad de San Martín	3	2	1	0	5-2	7
3	FBC Melgar	3	2	1	0	5-3	7
4	Deportivo Municipal	3	2	1	0	2-0	7
5	Academia Cantolao	3	2	0	1	6-4	6
6	Ayacucho FC	3	1	2	0	3-0	5
7	Sporting Cristal	3	1	1	1	7-4	4
8	Alianza Lima	2	1	1	0	3-2	4
9	Sport Huancayo	3	1	1	1	5-5	4
10	Unión Comercio	3	1	0	2	3-5	3
10	Universitario de Deportes	3	1	0	2	3-5	3
12	Binacional	3	1	0	2	3-6	3
13	UTC	3	0	2	1	1-2	2
14	Sport Boys	2	0	1	1	0-4	1
15	Sport Rosario	3	0	0	3	1-5	0
16	Comerciantes Unidos	3	0	0	3	1-6	0