| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boa | 15 | W1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10/15 | 7-5 |
| Rio Branco MG | 8 | W1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9/15 | 9-5 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2007-03-10 – 2008-03-23) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008-03-23 | Rio Branco MG | 1-2 | Boa |
| 2007-03-10 | Boa | 2-1 | Rio Branco MG |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boa | 3 | 11 | 20 | 4 | LWWDL | 5 | -2 |
| Rio Branco MG | 5 | 11 | 17 | 2 | WLWDD | 3 | +2 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2009-02-01
The table read 3rd (Boa, 20 pts) against 5th (Rio Branco MG, 17 pts), 3 points apart. Per game in the league, Boa were scoring 1.82 and conceding 1.45, Rio Branco MG 1.27 and 1.09, against a competition average of 1.35 goals per team per game.
Estádio Municipal Prefeito Dilzon Luiz de Melo in Varginha staged the fixture, a ground that holds 15,471. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Boa led 2-0 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 3-2.
