Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Petro de Luanda 1st with 68 points, Santa Rita 14th with 26, 42 apart. The last five rounds placed Santa Rita 1st in the league for form — higher than their 14th in the standings. Per game in the league, Santa Rita were scoring 0.43 and conceding 1.03, Petro de Luanda 1.5 and 0.4, against a competition average of 0.95 goals per team per game.
Santa Rita entered with three losses in a row. Petro de Luanda were unbeaten in 15. Santa Rita had banked 1 of the last 15 points on offer; Petro de Luanda, 11.
4 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Santa Rita 0, draws 0, Petro de Luanda 4, at 2.25 goals per meeting. Playing at home matters in this fixture: 75% of the meetings went to the host. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 25% of the meetings.
Estádio 4 de Janeiro staged the fixture, a ground that holds 12,000. It was 0-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 0-0.