Match Report
The table gap was wide: 40 points between Mafra (1st, 69 pts) and Alcanenense (14th, 29 pts). Alcanenense ranked just 55th in the league on five-round form despite their 14th table position. Scoring rates set the scale: Alcanenense 1.07 scored and 1.53 conceded per game, Mafra 2.03 and 0.7, with the league averaging 1.26.
Level finishes had become the habit for Alcanenense: three in a row, having scored in 7 consecutive games. Mafra carried an 8-game unbeaten run into this, having scored in 8 consecutive games. Over the last five, Alcanenense had taken 3 of 15 points to Mafra's 13.
On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.