Match Report
The table read 16th (Sertãozinho, 8 pts) against 5th (Rio Claro, 22 pts), 14 points apart. Sertãozinho ranked 9th in the league on five-round form, well above their 16th table position. Per game in the league, Sertãozinho were scoring 0.8 and conceding 1.4, Rio Claro 1.29 and 0.93, against a competition average of 1.04 goals per team per game.
Sertãozinho's winless run stood at 7. Defeat had not touched Rio Claro in 6 games. Sertãozinho had banked 2 of the last 15 points on offer; Rio Claro, 11.
The match was played at Estádio Municipal Frederico Dalmazo in Sertãozinho (capacity 8,540). V. Furlan officiated: 55 games logged, averaging 1.1 yellow cards each. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 1 second-half goal set the final 0-1.