Match Report
11 points and 2 places separated them: Santos 3rd with 5, Newell's Old Boys 1st with 16. Recent form told a different story for Santos: only 27th in the league over the last five rounds despite sitting 3rd. Scoring rates set the scale: Santos 0.5 scored and 0.83 conceded per game, Newell's Old Boys 1.83 and 0.67, with the league averaging 1.34.
The match was played at Estádio Urbano Caldeira in Santos (capacity 16,798). With 100 matches recorded and 3.0 yellow cards per game, J. Valenzuela Sáez was the man in the middle. Half-time and full-time told different stories: Newell's Old Boys led 1-0 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-2.