Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Sport Recife 3rd with 66 points, Brusque 19th with 34, 32 apart. On recent form Sport Recife sat only 10th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 3rd overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Brusque 0.61 scored and 1.16 conceded per game, Sport Recife 1.5 and 0.97, with the league averaging 1.09.
Defeat had followed defeat for Brusque — three in succession. The five-game form split read 1/15 points for Brusque against 7/15 for Sport Recife.
The venue was Estádio Aderbal Ramos da Silva in Florianopolis, with room for 5,000 spectators. On the scoreboard, Brusque led 1-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 1-0 the final score.