Match Report
On the table this was a mismatch: Sanjoanense (7th, 42 pts) held a 21-point advantage over Sousense (16th, 21 pts). On recent form Sousense sat only 66th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 16th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Sanjoanense 1.17 scored and 1 conceded per game, Sousense 0.63 and 2.03, with the league averaging 1.26.
Sousense arrived off four straight defeats, having scored in 6 consecutive games.
With 32 matches recorded and 1.9 yellow cards per game, A. Neto was the man in the middle. Estádio Conde Dias Garcia in São João da Madeira, capacity 15,000, hosted the game.