Match Report
22 points for Bonsucesso (1st), 16 for Petrópolis (6th): a 6-point gap. Recent form told a different story for Petrópolis: only 10th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 6th. Per game in the league, Bonsucesso were scoring 1.27 and conceding 0.64, Petrópolis 1 and 0.82, against a competition average of 0.98 goals per team per game.
Bonsucesso entered with five wins in a row, having scored in 7 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Bonsucesso 15/15, Petrópolis 6/15.
The match was played at Estádio Leônidas da Silva in Rio de Janeiro (capacity 10,000). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-1.