Match Report
Benfica Castelo Branco went into the game 3rd in the table on 35 points; Carapinheirense sat 9th on 22 — a 13-point gap. Recent form flatters Carapinheirense's table spot — 5th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 9th. Scoring rates set the scale: Benfica Castelo Branco 1.14 scored and 0.67 conceded per game, Carapinheirense 1.1 and 1.33, with the league averaging 1.17.
Carapinheirense's winless run stood at 7. From the last five rounds, Benfica Castelo Branco held 10 points of 15 and Carapinheirense 2.
With 34 matches recorded and 2.0 yellow cards per game, T. Ribeiro Pinto was the man in the middle. Estádio Municipal Vale do Romeiro in Castelo Branco staged the fixture, a ground that holds 12,000. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.