Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Chaves 7th with 46 points, Santa Clara 18th with 22, 24 apart. The last five rounds placed Santa Clara 9th in the league for form — higher than their 18th in the standings. Per game in the league, Santa Clara were scoring 0.76 and conceding 1.71, Chaves 1.03 and 1.18, against a competition average of 1.25 goals per team per game.
Defeat had followed defeat for Santa Clara — nine in succession. Recent form was uneven: 0/15 points for Santa Clara, 10/15 for Chaves.
The sides have met 4 times in the GioScore results database: 1 win for Santa Clara, 2 draws and 1 for Chaves, at 0.5 goals per meeting. Only 25% of these meetings ended in a home win. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 0% of the meetings went over two goals.
Estádio de São Miguel in Ponta Delgada, capacity 13,277, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 1-1.