Macará and Santos Laguna faced off in the Copa Sudamericana 2026 round of 16 return leg on Thursday, August 20, at Estadio Francisco Bellavista in Ambato. The match, broadcast by ESPN and Disney Plus Premium, ended in a 0-0 draw. The game started at 5:00 p.m. (Peruvian time), 7:00 p.m. in Argentina and Brazil. Neither team managed to score, keeping the aggregate score tied at 0-0. Legal channels like ESPN and Disney Plus offered the broadcast, while pirate channels like Fútbol Libre did not. The draw leaves the series at 0-0, with the away game in Ambato as the next fixture. The lack of goals resulted in a technical tie, but the tiebreakers could still decide the outcome.