After more than eleven years, Municipal finally won in Malacatán. The Reds won Malacateco 0-1 this Sunday at the Santa Lucía stadium, in a match loaded with tension, history and emotion. Victory not only ends one of its most negative gusts as visitors, but also allows them to take the Momentary leaders of the Clausura 2025 tournament.
The duel started with complications from the first minute. Intense rain fell on the border grass just before starting, forcing delay the start of the meeting and leaving the court in slippery and heavy conditions. Despite this, both teams jumped into the field with ambition: bulls with the intention of maintaining their hegemony, and scarlets determined to end more than a decade of local domain.
During the first minutes, the game was locked, intense, with few clear opportunities and many disputes in the midfield. Malacateco sought to impose its locality with pressure and thrust, while municipal opted for patience and ball circulation.
The shout of relief reached the 30th minute. José “El Flaco” Martínez leaked a precise pass for the Panamanian, Davis Contreraswho released a violent right that stuck in the network, beating the goalkeeper Alejandro Peláez. A goal that not only put the scarlets up, but lit the illusion of breaking with the story.
With that goal, Contreras signed his second consecutive goal with the scarlet camisole and consolidates as one of the most important offensive figures of the team in this section of the championship.
The second half was a resistance exercise for visitors. Malacateco tried to react, pushed with centers, with offensive changes, but ran into a well -stopped defense and a red team that defended with intelligence and character.
@Dmalacatecotoro VRS. @Rojos_municipal 30 ‘✔️ AA2 success by validating the Municipal goal play, the scorer was clearly enabled at the time the ball leaked.
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Those directed by Sebastián Bini They knew how to endure the result and play with the clock in their favor. So, Municipal managed to break a streak of 24 games without winning at the Santa Lucía stadiumwhere they did not celebrate since October 9, 2013.
Victory also gives them a double award: with the three points, Municipal momentarily reaches the top of the tournamenttaking advantage of the stumbling block of other contestants and strengthening their aspirations in the final stretch of the championship.