Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Vita Club 3rd with 48 points, TP Mazembe 1st with 30, 18 apart. Vita Club ranked just 27th in the league on five-round form despite their 3rd table position. Per game in the league, Vita Club were scoring 1.26 and conceding 0.48, TP Mazembe 1.79 and 0.5, against a competition average of 1 goals per team per game.
Vita Club were unbeaten in 5, having scored in 6 consecutive games. 5 matches unbeaten backed TP Mazembe's arrival.
6 meetings are on record — 1 won by Vita Club, 3 by TP Mazembe, 2 drawn, at 1.83 goals per meeting. More than two goals is the exception here — seen in 33% of meetings.
The match was played at Stade Tata Raphaël (capacity 30,000). On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.