Achuapa is still unstoppable since the arrival of Adrián Arias. This Sunday, the onion team defeated Municipal 2-1 at the Winston Pineda Gudiel stadium, in a match where the premises traced with two penalties and achieved a key victory against the leader of the Clausura 2025.
With this result, Achuapa adds nine points of nine possible since Arias assumed the technical direction, consolidating himself as one of the teams with the best time in the National League.
The match began with Municipal dominating the game and managing to open the score early. At minute 15, Pedro Altán took a powerful shot from outside the area, beating Ederson heads and putting the reds advantage. With 0-1 in his favor, those led by Sebastián Bini controlled the game and prevented Achuapa from generating danger in the first half.
However, in the second half, Achuapa came out with another attitude and began to press in search of the draw. The insistence paid off at minute 69, when the referee sanctioned a penalty in favor of the local team. Agustín Maziero did not fail from eleven steps and put the 1-1, unleashing euphoria in the onion fans.
Municipal tried to react, but Achuapa kept the offensive impetus and continued looking for the winning goal. When it seemed that the game would end in a draw, in 90+4 ‘the referee again indicated a penalty in favor of the premises, in a play that generated claims by the scarlet players. Maziero took responsibility again and did not fail, marking his double and giving Achuapa a gold triumph.
With this victory, Achuapa achieves his third consecutive victory since the arrival of Adrián Arias, who has completely changed the team’s face and added 9 of 9 possible points.
For its part, Municipal remains leader with 21 points, but lets out an opportunity to expand its advantage in the table, being available to ancient and Malacateco, which have 19 points and must still play their matches.
The defeat leaves doubts in the Reds, who see their streak of good results and now they must focus on correcting errors to maintain the top of the tournament. Meanwhile, Achuapa continues to rise and demonstrates that under the command of Adrián Arias it is a team with ambitions in Clausura 2025.
@Achuapad VRS. @Rojos_municipal 68 ‘✔️ Act of the referee by penalizing penalty in favor of Achuapa, the Municipal defender shows lack of attention and ends up giving a reckless kick to the adversary preventing him from continuing to dominate the ball.
🎥 @ClarosportScam pic.twitter.com/dsgnmonhgw– Var502 (@var502gt) March 9, 2025