Match Report
13 points and 5 places separated them: Crato 6th with 4, Fortaleza 1st with 17. Crato ranked just 13th in the league on five-round form despite their 6th table position. Per game in the league, Crato were scoring 1 and conceding 3.29, Fortaleza 2.86 and 0.29, against a competition average of 1.54 goals per team per game.
Crato entered with three losses in a row. Fortaleza's unbeaten run stood at 5. The last-five ledger: Crato 4/15, Fortaleza 13/15.
The match was played at Estádio Municipal Raimundo de Oliveira Filho in Caucaia (capacity 3,000). On the scoreboard, Fortaleza led 3-0 at the break; 4 second-half goals set the final 1-6.