Match Recap
Jostin Alman's 40th-minute strike was the only goal Manta FC needed to end their rocky run and see off Tecnico Universitario 1-0 in Liga Pro. It is a result that bucks recent history: Tecnico Universitario had won two of the last three meetings between these sides, so this time Manta FC turned the tables at home. The Liga Pro table tells its own story. Manta FC sit down in 16th with just one win from their last five, while Tecnico Universitario, two places and eleven points better off in 14th, have fared only marginally better with two wins in the same stretch. Neither club has a player among the league's current top ten scorers, with E. Mero still well clear on 13 goals, but none of that mattered once Alman's effort found the net before halftime. It was a scrappy, hard-earned result rather than a statement, and the goal itself, arriving right on the stroke of the break, is worth rewinding for.
