Match Report
17 points separated the sides: Ponte Preta 1st on 36, Comercial 9th on 19. Comercial's recent output outran their position: 5th on form over five rounds, 9th in the table. Against a league average of 1.27 goals per team per game, Ponte Preta ran at 1.93 scored and 0.93 conceded, Comercial at 0.8 and 1.07.
Ponte Preta carried a 15-game unbeaten run into this, having scored in 15 consecutive games.
Estádio Moisés Lucarelli in Campinas, capacity 19,722, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 3-0.