Jordan Guivin put ADT ahead in the 13th minute, and the visitors led Sporting Cristal 1-0 at the Alberto Gallardo as the 16th round of the Torneo Apertura kicked off. Guivin finished from the heart of Sporting Cristal’s area to give ADT the early advantage in a match scheduled for Sunday, May 24 at 11:00 hours.
The game had barely settled when Martín Távara produced Sporting Cristal’s first opening in the first minute, only for the ball to strike his teammate Gabriel Santana and run away. Thirteen minutes in, Guivin pounced: he collected play in the box and drove a composed finish past the keeper to break the deadlock and send ADT in front, 1-0. Joel Alarcón Limo was the appointed referee for the match.
The lineups underlined the stakes. Sporting Cristal started with Diego Enríquez in goal and a midfield and attack built around Leandro Sosa, Miguel Araujo, Rafael Lutiger, Cristiano da Silva, Gustavo Cazonatti, Yoshimar Yotún, Távara, Maxloren Castro, Santana and Irven Ávila. Felipe Vizeu, however, suffered an injury during the warmup and was unavailable for the host side before kickoff. ADT lined up Juan Valencia, Carlos Cabello, John Narváez, Jhair Soto, Josué Alvino, Ángel Ojeda, Guivin, Víctor Cedrón, Luis Benites, Joao Rojas and Jonathan Bauman.
The early goal arrived against a backdrop that magnified its importance. Sporting Cristal entered the round still smarting from a 1-3 defeat to FC Cajamarca and, per local coverage, needed a return to winning ways to climb out of the lower positions in the Torneo Apertura standings. ADT had momentum of its own, coming in off a 2-0 victory over Comerciantes Unidos, and the visitors’ fast start at the Gallardo echoed the result of the teams’ last meeting: ADT beat Sporting Cristal 3-2 on October 4 in the Clausura of Liga 1 2025.
The match carried a built-in tension from kickoff. Sporting Cristal lost its expected attacking option before the first whistle when Vizeu was ruled out with a warmup injury; that disruption left the hosts chasing a rhythm that never quite settled before Guivin’s strike. For ADT, the early breakthrough validated a game plan that relied on quick entries into the box and taking the initiative on the road. The sporting cristal - adt fixture, in other words, flipped from a hoped-for home recovery into an immediate test of crisis management for Cristal.
Guivin’s finish is the decisive detail so far: a single moment that hands ADT control of tempo and forces Sporting Cristal to reshape a plan midgame. With Cristal still reeling from its previous loss and missing a striker who withdrew before kickoff, the hosts face a simple but stark requirement — overturn the deficit here at the Gallardo or risk slipping further behind in an Apertura campaign they entered trying to stabilize. ADT, by contrast, can now manage the game from the front and press the advantage it earned in the first quarter-hour.
The next phase of the match will determine how damaging the early blow proves. If Sporting Cristal can regroup and find a response before halftime, the home crowd will still have a chance to steer the game back on course. If ADT sustains possession and pressure, this 1-0 lead could become the foundation of a second consecutive positive result against a side that has already lost once to the visitors in league competition.
