Match Report
The table read 1st (Ceará, 11 pts) against 4th (Caucaia, 3 pts), 8 points apart. The last five rounds placed Caucaia no better than 12th for form, against 4th in the standings. Per game in the league, Ceará were scoring 3.2 and conceding 0.8, Caucaia 0.6 and 2, against a competition average of 1.27 goals per team per game.
Ceará arrived on a run of three straight wins, having scored in 7 consecutive games. Over the last five, Ceará had taken 10 of 15 points to Caucaia's 4.
The referee was R. Rodrigues de Oliveira Junior, with 37 matches in our database and 2.0 yellows per game on average. Estádio Governador Plácido Aderaldo Castelo in Fortaleza staged the fixture, a ground that holds 63,903. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Ceará led 3-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 5-0.