Match Report
40 points separated the sides: Vilafranquense 2nd on 75, Santa Iria 15th on 35. Santa Iria had been over-performing their table position on recent form: 7th in the league over the last five rounds against 15th overall. Per game in the league, Santa Iria were scoring 1.03 and conceding 1.62, Vilafranquense 1.66 and 0.66, against a competition average of 1.12 goals per team per game.
Momentum sat with Vilafranquense, winners of their last three. The five-game form split read 4/15 points for Santa Iria against 11/15 for Vilafranquense.
Campo do Sacavenense in Sacavém staged the fixture, a ground that holds 3,100. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.