Guayaquil City won 4-1 this Monday against Cumbayá and slipped into an expectant area of the standings, at the close of the tenth day of the first phase of the ecuadorian championship football that dominates Barcelona. Miguel Parrales, Ángel Quiñónez, the Uruguayan Renato César and Kevin Sambonino scored the goals in Guayaquil City’s win over Cumbayá, debutant in the First Division. After the first by Parrales, the Argentine goalkeeper Joaquín Puchetta scored a controversial penalty in favor of Cumbayá, but Quiñónez immediately scored the second for the winning team. Cumbayá was left with one player less from the 71st minute due to the expulsion of defender Darwin Suárez, which the locals César and Sambonino took advantage of to increase the advantage.
Last day, the team from Guayaquil also scored a 4-0 win over Aucas, from Quito.
At the top of the standings are the Barcelona, with 22 points, followed by Liga de Quito (19), Emelec (18), Universidad Católica (17), Independiente del Valle (17), Gualaceo (14) and Guayaquil City (13) who have a pending match against bottom team October 9. The first phase of the tournament will close at the end of the fifteenth date and the second phase will begin immediately with a total of another fifteen days. The two finalists for the 2022 title will emerge from each of these. However, if the winner of the first phase also did so in the second phase, they would be proclaimed champion directly, without the need for a final. The last two of the standings, accumulated scores from the two phases, will lose the category for next year.
