Match Report
1 points and 1 places separated them: Cape Verde Islands 2nd with 10, Burkina Faso 1st with 11. Burkina Faso had been under-performing their position — 17th on five-round form against 1st in the table. Against a league average of 1.21 goals per team per game, Cape Verde Islands ran at 1.33 scored and 1 conceded, Burkina Faso at 1.33 and 0.83.
Burkina Faso were unbeaten in 6, having scored in 6 consecutive games.
The head-to-head ledger counts 5 games: 2 Cape Verde Islands wins, 3 for Burkina Faso, 0 draws, at 1.4 goals per meeting. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 0% of the meetings went over two goals.
Estádio Nacional de Cabo Verde in Praia, capacity 15,000, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, it was 1-1 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 3-1.