By Reinaldo Oliveros
Mar 18, 2024, 10:00 AM EDT
Águila won the Salvadoran soccer Superclásico by beating Futbolistas Asociados Santanecos (FAS) 3-2. on the eleventh day of the Clausura tournament, which sold out four of the six games this weekend.
The date will close this Wednesday, when the Albos del Alianza face the Cucheros del Municipal Limeño who are leaders of the tournament with 21 points, one more than Platense.
The Viroleños del Platense fell this Sunday 2-0 against the Toros del Luis Ángel Firpo, who rise to third position with 19 units.
At the bottom is Alianza with 18 points, Deportivo 11 and FAS with 16 points and Isidro Metapán and Águila, led by the Argentine Ernesto Corti, with 15 points each.
11 Deportivo tied 1-1 with Fuerte San Francisco, Metapán won 2-1 The Mythological Dragon and the Emplumados del Águila defeated FAS in the national classic with two goals from Colombian striker Carlos Salazar.
Municipal Limeño has three wins and two losses in its last five games, but if it wins this Wednesday it will be four points ahead of second place.
Firpo, which is in third position, is the team with the most goals scored in the tournament, but also the second that receives the most. This reason has them two points from the top and with a margin of only three goals in favor (20 goals scored and 17 received).
A game suspended due to irregularities in the league
The game between Jocoro and Santa Tecla, which is fighting not to be relegated, was canceled and postponed by decision of the Competition Committee of the Salvadoran Football Federation (Fesfut).
In a resolution, said entity indicated that Jocoro had not complied with the process to register a new technician after the departure of Peruvian Alberto ‘Chochera’ Castillo, who led the club to runners-up in the previous tournament.
If the situation is not resolved, Fesfut indicated that they would not be scheduled Jocoro matches for the following dates.
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