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Estádio do Vale
Spectators: 7295 (Terracing: 5473, Seating: 1677, VIP seats: 145) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Valdomiro Meireles started the match with the kick off. In the 4th minute, Novo Hamburgo's Valdomiro Meireles ran free of his marker and smoothly shot the ball into the goal behind Léo de Andrade. Léo de Andrade yelled at his defense, as they had left him out to dry. 1-0. Léo de Andrade made a fantastic save in the 11th minute, when Gláuber Soares sent off a good shot on target. Léo de Andrade showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Valdomiro Meireles, who was totally free with the ball in the 12th minute. If Gláuber Soares had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 15th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. In the 19th minute, Gláuber Soares made a precise shot to the right of Léo de Andrade. Capinzal's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 2-0. In the 22nd minute Valdomiro Meireles shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Léo de Andrade saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. 23 minutes in the game, Valdomiro Meireles fired away an excellent shot, which passed to the side of the right post without Léo de Andrade having to interfere. Gláuber Soares sent away a hard shot on goal in the 25th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. If Gláuber Soares had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 34th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Valdomiro Meireles fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 40th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Léo de Andrade having to interfere. Léo de Andrade made a fantastic save in the 42nd minute, when Gláuber Soares sent off a good shot on target. Erivaldo Guerra fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 47th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Léo de Andrade having to interfere. Af the end of the first half the score was 2-0. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Evaristo Siqueira to make the kick off. Gláuber Soares received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 61st minute. Léo de Andrade tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. In the 64th minute, Erivaldo Guerra got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. Léo de Andrade didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Valdomiro Meireles went, in the 66th minute, to the upper right corner, 3-0 was the resulting score. An unexpectedly hard shot by Valdomiro Meireles in the 71st minute of play forced Capinzal's goalkeeper Léo de Andrade to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 77 minutes into the match, Valdomiro Meireles had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Léo de Andrade. Capinzal's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Valdomiro Meireles was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 4-0. Thanks to some nice foot action and superb ball handling Evaristo Siqueira in the 86th minute a chance for a shot on goal. With an extended leg and a bit of luck João Francisco Cordeiro prevented the ball from getting in the gole. After 90 minutes of play, Capinzal's Jarbas Esteves made it 4-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. João Francisco Cordeiro was left in no man's land by his defense there!