Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Sport Recife 1st with 21 points, Porto 9th with 3, 18 apart. Per game in the league, Sport Recife were scoring 1.78 and conceding 0.78, Porto 1 and 2.56, against a competition average of 1.39 goals per team per game.
Momentum sat with Sport Recife, winners of their last three, having scored in 10 consecutive games. Three consecutive defeats weighed on Porto. Over the last five, Sport Recife had taken 12 of 15 points to Porto's 3.
Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho in Recife, capacity 8,000, hosted the game. Sport Recife led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-0.