Match Report
Criciúma (2nd, 9 pts) visited Paraná (9th, 16 pts) with 7 points between them. Recent form told a different story for Criciúma: only 22nd in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 2nd. Scoring rates set the scale: Paraná 0.94 scored and 1.17 conceded per game, Criciúma 0.5 and 0.17, with the league averaging 1.02.
Paraná had gone 6 games without a win. Criciúma arrived on a run of three straight wins. The last-five ledger: Paraná 2/15, Criciúma 9/15.
Estádio Durival de Britto e Silva in Curitiba, capacity 20,000, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Paraná led 2-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 2-1.