Match Report
16 points separated the sides: Mirassol 2nd on 67, Paysandu 12th on 51. Paysandu had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 4th in the league over the last five rounds against 12th overall. In league terms the two rates read 1.08/1.11 for Paysandu and 1.11/0.68 for Mirassol (scored/conceded per game); the competition average is 1.09.
Paysandu had gone 6 games without a win. Paysandu had banked 2 of the last 15 points on offer; Mirassol, 12.
With 58 matches recorded and 2.8 yellow cards per game, C. Augusto Vieira was the man in the middle. The match was played at Estádio Leônidas Sodré de Castro in Belem (capacity 16,200). It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.