Match Report
14 points and 10 places separated them: São Paulo RS 12th with 6, Caxias 2nd with 20. Recent form told a different story for Caxias: only 7th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 2nd. Per game in the league, São Paulo RS were scoring 0.36 and conceding 1.09, Caxias 1.45 and 0.82, against a competition average of 1.06 goals per team per game.
The last-five ledger: São Paulo RS 4/15, Caxias 10/15.
With 7 matches recorded and 2.4 yellow cards per game, A. da Silveira Farias was the man in the middle. Estádio Aldo Dapuzzo in Rio Grande staged the fixture, a ground that holds 8,000. Caxias led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-1.