Sporting Cristal: Mauricio Viana's great penalty save against Preciado.

The experience of Mauricio Viana prevented Sport Huancayo from increasing the score via penalty. The Chilean goalkeeper managed to save the shot from the twelve steps by the Colombian Carlos Preciado at 42 minutes of the first half, when the match was in favor of the locals 1-0 over Sporting Cristal.

Mauricio Viana saves the penalty kick from Carlos Preciado [Video: Gol Peru]

#Video Preciado had the opportunity to increase the advantage from the twelve steps, but Viana saved in a great way. #TORNEOCLAUSURAxGOLPERU pic.twitter.com/zEBKopSRBv

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Sporting Cristal will face Sport Huancayo this Sunday at 11:15 am (GOLPERU) in the city of Huancayo. Both teams were fighting, to a certain extent, in the Apertura Tournament but after the irregularities of the results that they presented in their previous campaign, they could not compete against Alianza Lima and they deflated towards the end. Both clubs have good squads to have a better Clausura tournament.

Sporting Cristal finished the Apertura Tournament with more doubts than certainties. The team coached by Pablo Zegarra showed inconsistency and collected many draws that did not allow them to compete for the title alongside Alianza Lima, with whom they competed closely. Sporting Cristal's last victory was almost a month ago, against Alianza Atlético de Sullana, with a 3-2 score as the visitors. In the last match, they drew 2-2 against Unión Comercio.

It is worth remembering that Sporting Cristal is the favorite, in terms of statistics, to win the Clausura Tournament, as they have won 2 of the last 3 and have reached the national finals.