Match Report
19 points for Sport Recife (1st), 11 for Sergipe (4th): an 8-point gap. Per game in the league, Sport Recife were scoring 2.38 and conceding 0.63, Sergipe 1.5 and 1, against a competition average of 1.34 goals per team per game.
Sport Recife entered with six wins in a row, having scored in 8 consecutive games. Sergipe were unbeaten in 7. Sport Recife had banked 15 of the last 15 points on offer; Sergipe, 9.
The venue was Estádio Adelmar da Costa Carvalho in Recife, with room for 8,000 spectators. On the scoreboard, Sport Recife led 1-0 at the break; 2 second-half goals set the final 2-1.