Match Report
16 points separated the sides: Rio Preto 9th on 28, Manthiqueira 18th on 12. Rio Preto ranked 3rd in the league on five-round form, well above their 9th table position. Per game in the league, Manthiqueira were scoring 0.63 and conceding 1.32, Rio Preto 1.16 and 1.11, against a competition average of 1.26 goals per team per game.
Manthiqueira had gone 8 games without a win. Manthiqueira had banked 1 of the last 15 points on offer; Rio Preto, 7.
Estádio Municipal Professor Dario Rodrigues Leite in Sao Paulo staged the fixture, a ground that holds 16,095. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Manthiqueira led 1-0 at the break, before 1 more goal closed it at 2-0.