Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Juventude (2nd, 65 pts) held a 37-point advantage over ABC (20th, 28 pts). The last five rounds placed ABC 6th in the league for form — higher than their 20th in the standings. Per game in the league, ABC were scoring 0.74 and conceding 1.34, Juventude 1.11 and 0.82, against a competition average of 1.05 goals per team per game.
A win had eluded ABC for 5 matches. Defeat had not touched Juventude in 6 games, having scored in 6 consecutive games. The five-game form split read 2/15 points for ABC against 9/15 for Juventude.
The match was played at Estádio Maria Lamas Farache in Natal (capacity 18,017). On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.