Match Report
7 points and 4 places separated them: Coritiba 1st with 68, Criciúma 5th with 61. The last five rounds placed Criciúma no better than 10th for form, against 5th in the standings. Per game in the league, Coritiba were scoring 1.03 and conceding 0.61, Criciúma 1.24 and 0.87, against a competition average of 1.11 goals per team per game.
Criciúma's unbeaten run stood at 7. From the last five rounds, Coritiba held 5 points of 15 and Criciúma 13.
6 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Coritiba 3, draws 0, Criciúma 3, at 2 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 67% of the meetings.
The venue was Estádio Major Antônio Couto Pereira in Curitiba, with room for 43,000 spectators. On the scoreboard, Criciúma led 2-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-2 the final score.
Goal scorers
Criciúma: Rodrigo (33'), Nicolas (36')