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LIMEIRÃO
Spectators: 7553 (Terracing: 5666, Seating: 1737, VIP seats: 150) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Cássio Severo started the match with the kick off. After 3 played minutes RJMARTINS got a freekick which was hit by Serafim Massa. 7 minutes into the game, A. A. INTERNACIONAL's Tomás Leme nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Nelsinho Marquez made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 1-0. After a rather tough play, RJMARTINS's Thomás Santos got a free kick in the 23rd minute. RJMARTINS's Nelsinho Marquez proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 26th minute of the match, managed to save RJMARTINS from getting a goal against them. A. A. INTERNACIONAL's Ramón Favoretto played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Thomás Santos in the 28th minute of play. Serafim Massa received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 33rd minute. Ramón Favoretto tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. In the 35th minute, Thomás Santos 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. When Thomás Santos was, once again, overly rough in his play he received his second yellow card and was ordered off the ground. 42 minutes had been played. Thomás Santos kicked well hit freekick during the 43rd minute of the match. A collision led to RJMARTINS getting a freekick after 44 minutes play. Dedé Dantas hit a great ball. In the 45th minute, Cássio Severo made a precise shot to the right of Nelsinho Marquez. RJMARTINS's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 4-0. When the referee blew for the end of the half the home team players were clearly happier, as they went in to the break leading 4-0.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Josué Novaes stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. After 54 played minutes A. A. INTERNACIONAL got a freekick which was hit by Frederico Couto. 57 minutes into the game, A. A. INTERNACIONAL's Frederico Couto nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Nelsinho Marquez made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 5-0. In the 63rd minute Frederico Couto shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Nelsinho Marquez saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. A. A. INTERNACIONAL's Sydney Queirós suffered a fractured collar bone after 65 minutes and couldn't finish the game. Ramón Souza hit a great freekick 66 minutes into the match. In the 66th minute of the match Xove Fombona shot from a long distance. The ball could have gone into the goal to the right of the goalkeeper, but Nelsinho Marquez showed his good shape when he easily got hold of the ball. Nelsinho Marquez showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Frederico Couto, who was totally free with the ball in the 68th minute. Nelsinho Marquez showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Sugar Villavicencio in the 71st minute of the match. In the 78th minute, Tomás Leme ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Nelsinho Marquez was frozen by the shot and now it was 7-0. In the 84th minute, Josué Novaes reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Ramón Favoretto. The goal made the score 7-1. Nelsinho Marquez took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Cássio Severo, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. 90 minutes into the game, A. A. INTERNACIONAL's Frederico Couto nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Nelsinho Marquez made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 8-1. An unexpectedly hard shot by Cássio Severo in the 94th minute of play forced RJMARTINS's goalkeeper Nelsinho Marquez to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 95 minutes into the game, A. A. INTERNACIONAL's Frederico Couto nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Nelsinho Marquez made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 9-1.