Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Sport Recife 9th with 44 points, Ponte Preta 20th with 13, 31 apart. On recent form Sport Recife sat only 14th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 9th overall. Per game in the league, Sport Recife were scoring 1.34 and conceding 1, Ponte Preta 0.59 and 2.14, against a competition average of 1.17 goals per team per game.
Ponte Preta entered with four losses in a row.
The sides have met 12 times in the GioScore results database: 6 wins for Sport Recife, 4 draws and 2 for Ponte Preta, at 2.92 goals per meeting. History gives the home side just 42% of the wins in this matchup.
The match was played at Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho (capacity 32,500). R. Rodrigues de Oliveira Junior officiated: 43 games logged, averaging 1.9 yellow cards each. Sport Recife led 2-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 2-0.
Goal scorers
Sport Recife: Diego (25' og), Chrystian Barletta (35')
Key stats
Possession: Sport Recife 65% · Ponte Preta 35% · Total shots: 21-13 · On target: 6-3 · Corners: 7-3