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Alianza Lima beat Cienciano 1-0 on Tuesday, November 3, and the result changed the picture at the top of the Torneo Clausura. Eryc Castillo settled it in the 72nd minute with a diving header after Kevin Quevedo’s shot from the right was saved, giving Alianza Lima three points at Estadio Alejandro Villanueva in Matute.
That was the difference that mattered today. The match had been level at 0-0 through the first half, and it was still tight until Quevedo’s effort dropped into Castillo’s path. Once the forward guided it home, Alianza Lima had the lead, the crowd at the stadium had a goal to celebrate, and the game moved into a sharper, more anxious phase that ended with Horacio Melgarejo being expelled after the tension that followed the substitution of Gonzalo Aguirre.
For Alianza Lima, the win lifted the team to 28 points and left it three behind Sporting Cristal, which is why this was not just another home victory. The fixture was part of date 15 in Liga1 Te Apuesto 2026, and the scoreboard now gives Alianza Lima a clearer chase while also tightening the margin for error in the closing stretch. The match had started at 8:00 p.m. Peru time and was shown on L1 Max and L1 Play, but the lasting detail is the one Castillo supplied at 72 minutes.
There is still one open edge to the night: what, if anything, follows Melgarejo’s expulsion after the final whistle. The result itself is settled, but the late confrontation left a disciplinary question hanging over a win that was decided by the narrowest possible margin.
