Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — 757 Kepri Jaya 4th with 21 points, Persih Tembilahan 11th with 3, 18 apart. On recent form Persih Tembilahan sat only 151st league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 11th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Persih Tembilahan 0.38 scored and 3.46 conceded per game, 757 Kepri Jaya 1.62 and 1, with the league averaging 1.22.
Three consecutive defeats weighed on Persih Tembilahan.
The match was played at Stadion Beringin Indragiri in Tembilahan (capacity 5,000).