Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Internacional 9th with 55 points, Goiás 18th with 38, 17 apart. Internacional had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 1st in the league over the last five rounds against 9th overall. Per game in the league, Goiás were scoring 0.95 and conceding 1.39, Internacional 1.21 and 1.18, against a competition average of 1.24 goals per team per game.
GioScore's database holds 15 meetings between the two: 5 for Goiás, 9 for Internacional and 1 drawn, at 2.73 goals per meeting. Home advantage is real in this fixture: whoever hosted won 67% of the meetings. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings.
The venue was Estádio de Hailé Pinheiro in Goiânia, with room for 50,049 spectators. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.