Match Report
The table gap was wide: 26 points between Sport Recife (7th, 63 pts) and Tombense (18th, 37 pts). Sport Recife had been under-performing their position — 17th on five-round form against 7th in the table. Per game in the league, Tombense were scoring 0.97 and conceding 1.32, Sport Recife 1.55 and 1.05, against a competition average of 1.05 goals per team per game.
A win had eluded Tombense for 9 matches. From the last five rounds, Tombense held 1 points of 15 and Sport Recife 10.
Estádio Antônio Guimarães de Almeida in Tombos, capacity 3,050, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.