Match Report
10 points and 3 places separated them: Leixões 15th with 38, Sporting Covilhã 18th with 28. On the form table Sporting Covilhã stood 8th over the last five rounds, despite being 18th overall. Against a league average of 1.32 goals per team per game, Leixões ran at 1.12 scored and 1.44 conceded, Sporting Covilhã at 0.91 and 1.68.
Defeat had followed defeat for Sporting Covilhã — three in succession.
With 59 matches recorded and 2.2 yellow cards per game, M. Rodrigues Oliveira was the man in the middle. The match was played at Estádio Clube Desportivo das Aves in Vila das Aves (capacity 8,560). Leixões led 2-0 at the break, and the second half added 3 goals for the 3-2 full-time score.