{"id":484706,"date":"2025-09-27T23:26:59","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/javier-roces-missile-takes-down-salcedos-undefeated-streak-and-puts-cibao-fc-in-sole-leadership-1-0\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:26:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T03:26:59","slug":"javier-roces-missile-takes-down-salcedos-undefeated-streak-and-puts-cibao-fc-in-sole-leadership-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/football\/javier-roces-missile-takes-down-salcedos-undefeated-streak-and-puts-cibao-fc-in-sole-leadership-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Javier Roces’ missile takes down Salcedo’s undefeated streak and puts Cibao FC in sole leadership (1-0)"},"content":{"rendered":"SANTIAGO. \u2013 A great goal by Javier Roces<\/strong> defined the match and Cibao FC<\/strong> took away the undefeated status from Salcedo FC<\/strong> by winning 1-0<\/strong>, to remain alone at the top of the Dominican Football League (LDF 2025-2026)<\/strong>, in matchday 8 played on Saturday night at the stadium of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Madre y Maestra. The tournament is dedicated to Jos\u00e9 Rafael Abinader<\/strong>.\n\nYou may be interested in:<\/strong>:Atl\u00e9tico de Madrid cuts Real Madrid’s winning streak with a 5-2 thrashing<\/a>\n\nWith the triumph, Cibao FC reached 18 points<\/strong> (added 3 to the 15 it had) and remained as the sole leader. Salcedo FC remained with 15<\/strong>.\n\nThe decisive goal came in the 61st minute: Roces unleashed a thunderbolt that entered like a missile into the visiting goal, leaving goalkeeper Cristian Severino with no answer and unleashing the euphoria of the orange fans who packed the stadium.\n\nSalcedo FC “sold the defeat dearly” and remained insistent on the rival goal, but Miguel Lloyd<\/strong> once again stood as a wall, stopping every attempt that reached his territory.\n\nIn the first half, Cibao FC suffered the injury of Walter Acu\u00f1a<\/strong> at minute 39<\/strong>, with Wilman Modesta<\/strong> entering in his place. Near halftime, Jean Carlos L\u00f3pez<\/strong> was close to opening the scoring with a powerful shot that hit Severino’s left post. The 0-0<\/strong> score remained until halftime.\n\nThe complement started unchanged and with maximum parity, until Roces broke the lock with his definition. Already in the final stretch, at minute 89<\/strong>, the locals made a triple move: \u00c1ngel P\u00e9rez<\/strong>, Gonzalo Alarc\u00f3n<\/strong> and Juli\u00e1n G\u00f3mez<\/strong> entered for Rivaldo Correa<\/strong>, Omar de la Cruz<\/strong> and Carlos \u201cCaballo\u201d Ventura<\/strong>.\n\n\n

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Cibao FC (Coach: Junior Scheldeur):<\/strong> Miguel Lloyd<\/strong> (cap.) in goal; Julio C\u00e9sar Murillo<\/strong>, Kleimer Mosquera<\/strong>, Edwarlyn Reyes<\/strong>, Gabriel Peguero<\/strong> in defense; Omar de la Cruz<\/strong>, Jean Carlos L\u00f3pez<\/strong> and Rivaldo Correa<\/strong> in midfield; Walter Acu\u00f1a<\/strong>, Carlos (Caballo) Ventura<\/strong> and Javier Roces<\/strong> in attack.<\/p>\n\n\nSalcedo FC (Coach: Arturo Berroa): Cristian Severino in goal; Wilson Chery (capt.), Starlin Alba, Endry \u00c1lvarez, Carlos Rossell, Alexander Jim\u00e9nez, Alejandro Carrera, Gomas N\u00fa\u00f1ez, Brayan More, Jairo Alegr\u00eda and Daniel Jamesley.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SANTIAGO. \u2013 A great goal by Javier Roces defined the match and Cibao FC took away the undefeated status from Salcedo FC by winning 1-0, to remain alone at the top of the Dominican Football League (LDF 2025-2026), in matchday 8 played on Saturday night at the stadium of the Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica Madre y […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":484707,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40943],"tags":[611,40231,33029,40853],"class_list":["post-484706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-ldf","tag-thetruthnewspaper"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-225Q","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/IMG_0880-1-1.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Football"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/IMG_0880-1-1.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}