| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cruzeiro | 7 | D1 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 11/15 | 8-3 |
| Social | 6 | D2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6/15 | 5-6 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cruzeiro | 1 | 11 | 25 | 23 | WDDDW | 2 | -1 |
| Social | 10 | 11 | 7 | -12 | LWLDD | 9 | +1 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2009-02-01
Cruzeiro, 1st with 25 points, sat 18 points above Social (10th, 7). Per game in the league, Cruzeiro were scoring 2.82 and conceding 0.73, Social 0.55 and 1.64, against a competition average of 1.35 goals per team per game.
7 matches unbeaten backed Cruzeiro's arrival.
Estádio Governador Magalhães Pinto in Belo Horizonte, capacity 62,000, hosted the game. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Cruzeiro led 2-0 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 5-0.
