With the illusion of the combination of results, Luis Angel Firpo went out to the field of the Sergio Torres stadium to look for the victory that would allow them to dream of playing the quarterfinals, which they achieved 2-0 over Holy button.
Jomal Williams came on as a substitute by decision of Eraldo Correia and was the hero of the Pamperos with a brace in the second half. Leonel Cárcamo Batres’ team, with zero chances of qualifying, decided to rotate the squad.
From the first minute of play, the locals came out with the obligation not only to play at home, but also sought to get the three points that would allow them to dream of qualifying for the quarterfinals.
The tecleños, for their part, tried to finish in a decent way using reserve players and some substitutes for this last game.
Firpo tried short plays, the midfielders looked for strikers Luis Canales and Styven Vásquez, but after 15 minutes of play very little could connect with them.
Canales received the ball in three quarters of the field, visualized the goal and finished off, but the ball went over the parakeet’s goal. Until 17′ of the first half, the ball and the game options were proposed by those from Usulutan.
Those of La Libertad showed nervousness when trying to play from their goal, that led them to make certain mistakes but that the pamperos did not know how to take advantage of.
Over half an hour of play, the pamperos players were desperate to find the first goal, so much so that they demanded every action that harmed them by arbitration decision.
One of the clearest options in the match came at 34′, when Eduardo Vigil, Firpo’s captain, took a free kick that went close to the goal defended by Wilberth Hernández.
At 39′, Jefferson Polio looked for Vásquez into space, the Salvadoran striker controlled and shot for the ball that crossed the entire Santa Tecla goal.
Firpo took more of the initiative and there was a communion between the fans and the players, all of whom claimed the repeated fouls that the center-back, Héctor Salazar, called.
The great play of the match came at 44′, Vásquez controlled the ball outside the area of the parakeets, with great skill he searched for the right side of the goal, managed to reach the bottom line and before Hernández came out, he bounced the ball, The ball fell right to Wilson Rugama who finished off with a spectacular scissors that passed very close to the upper left corner of the Santa Tecla goal.
Vásquez received a foul on the edge of the area, William Canales took the free kick with a soft touch but the tecleño goalkeeper saved the ball well. With this action the first part ended in which Firpo sought victory.
Correira moved his pieces for the start of the second half with three substitutions. Two minutes after the start of the complement stage, William Canales escaped to the right and before the goalkeeper left, he gave the ball to Jomal Williams who, with two minutes on the pitch, scored the first goal of the game that gave Firpo the advantage. .
Santa Tecla tried to reduce the score, at 47 ‘Alan Ocón dropped down the left, watched Craig Foster who headed the goal wide of Óscar Sánchez’s goal.
Noe Flores left the ball on the edge of the area for the Santa Tecla reservist, Carlos Alfaro, alone and without a mark, finished off the pampera goal, letting go of the second clear scoring option at 65′.
At 70′, after a series of passes in the Pampera defensive zone, Eduardo Vigil made the change of play into space for Henry Castillo, before entering the area he drove to the left and when he observed that he could not find the frame, he gave in to Williams who entered the area and defined down on Hernández’s exit and scored the 2-0.
The fans demanded more goals but the pampero squad decided to move the ball and manage the result with less than ten minutes remaining in the game.
