At the close of date 10 of the Closing Tournament, General Caballero JLM was left with a strategic victory by beating October 12 (2-1) today at the Ka’arendy stadium. This result took out the winner and sent the loser to the relegation zone in the averages.
A disputed procedure was the one that was lived from the beginning of the match in Juan León Mallorquín, as expected considering the need of both protagonists to meet again with the victory and capture valuable points facing the central objective of their campaigns, that of saving the category.
Within this disputed development, both imposed a good intensity in their searches, although the scoreboard did not move until close to halftime.
Teodoro Arce, at 45 minutes, finalized the transitory 1-0 for the homeowner, with whom he said goodbye to the first half.
Those from Ciudad del Ñandutí reacted quickly in the second half, thanks to an accurate definition by the experienced Dionicio ‘Loco’ Pérez at 54′. It was 1-1.
But Juan Heinze, in the 70th minute, put Rojo back in the lead, and the 2-1 would no longer suffer any change.
With this result, General Caballero won for the first time with Gustavo Florentín as coach, as well as cut a streak of five games without winning and reached 11 points in the Clausura. But the main thing is that he climbed to 10th place in the average table (1,062).
This caused the new one located in the eleventh rung (relegation zone) in the averages to be precisely Itauguá’s 12 de Octubre, with 1,029.
El Globo, in addition, accumulates only 3 units in the current championship, with a campaign of one victory and nine defeats.