Match Report
In the standings it was Caxias 1st on 27 points, Real Noroeste 3rd on 23 — separated by 4. On recent form Real Noroeste sat only 22nd league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 3rd overall. Per game in the league, Caxias were scoring 1.43 and conceding 0.86, Real Noroeste 1.36 and 0.93, against a competition average of 1.16 goals per team per game.
Caxias arrived off three consecutive draws, having scored in 7 consecutive games.
J. Ferreira de Moraes took charge of the match — our records show 76 games refereed with an average of 2.1 yellow cards per game. The venue was Estádio Francisco Stédile in Caxias do Sul, with room for 17,000 spectators. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.