Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Chicken Inn 3rd with 56 points, Mutare City 17th with 23, 33 apart. The last five rounds placed Chicken Inn no better than 13th for form, against 3rd in the standings. Per game in the league, Mutare City were scoring 0.71 and conceding 1.62, Chicken Inn 1.2 and 0.77, against a competition average of 1 goals per team per game.
Defeat had followed defeat for Mutare City — three in succession. Chicken Inn entered with three wins in a row. The last-five ledger: Mutare City 3/15, Chicken Inn 12/15.
The match was played at Stade Georges Carcassonne in Aix-en-Provence. Chicken Inn led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-1.