Match Report
17 points separated the sides: Vilaverdense 1st on 31, Caniçal 7th on 14. On recent form Caniçal sat only 14th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 7th overall. Per game in the league, Caniçal were scoring 1.07 and conceding 1.93, Vilaverdense 2.29 and 0.71, against a competition average of 1.51 goals per team per game.
Caniçal arrived off seven straight defeats. Vilaverdense entered with four wins in a row, having scored in 9 consecutive games. Caniçal had banked 0 of the last 15 points on offer; Vilaverdense, 13.
The venue was Campo de Futebol do Caniçal in Caniçal, with room for 1,000 spectators. It was 0-0 at the break, and the second half added 2 goals for the 1-1 full-time score.