Cienciano beat Montevideo City Torque 2-0 in the first leg of their Copa Sudamericana 2026 quarterfinal on Thursday, September 10, 2026, at the Estadio Inca Garcilaso de la Vega in Cusco, Peru.
Cristian Souza and Maximiliano Amondarain scored for the Peruvian club, giving Cienciano a two-goal cushion to carry into the second leg of the last-eight tie.
The winner of the Cienciano-Montevideo City Torque tie will advance to the semifinals of the tournament, where it will face whichever club comes through the quarterfinal between Atletico Mineiro and Santos.
Match details
Kickoff was set for 7:30 p.m. in Lima and Bogota, 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time, 9:30 p.m. in Montevideo and Santiago, and 2:30 a.m. Friday in Spain.
The Copa Sudamericana is CONMEBOL's second-tier continental club competition in South America. Cienciano is based in Cusco, while Montevideo City Torque is a Uruguayan club.
How the match was broadcast
The game was shown on DSports, DirecTV's sports channel, typically found on channel 610 in the programming guide, and streamed through DGO (DirecTV Go), the company's online platform.
Both options carried full coverage of the match, including pre-match build-up, commentary and analysis from the stadium. Viewers with an active DirecTV subscription that includes DSports could watch on television or stream through the DGO app or website.
To follow the match through DGO, viewers needed to:
- Log in to the DGO website or app on a phone, tablet, laptop or smart TV using a DirecTV account, or create a new profile
- Confirm their plan includes the DSports channel
- Search for the 'Cienciano vs. Torque' event and press play
DGO allows subscribers to watch simultaneous broadcasts across multiple devices and offers HD picture quality along with live playback controls.
What comes next
Cienciano and Montevideo City Torque will play the second leg of the quarterfinal to decide which club advances to the semifinals of the Copa Sudamericana 2026, where the winner would meet whichever club comes through the tie between Atletico Mineiro and Santos.
