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FONTE NOVA
Spectators: 7295 (Terracing: 5473, Seating: 1677, VIP seats: 145) It was fairly windy and cold on the field when Fausto Miranda kicked off to start the match. In the 3rd minute Dinei Valladares shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Mathias Souto saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. In the 6th minute, Viktor Uzeirović had to leave the field with a concussion. 6 minutes into the game, Pedro Luiz Quadros was given a yellow card after he appeared to trip an opposing player. L⚽renz⚽ Sp⚽RT Clube's manager was livid on the sidelines, but the referee was unmoved and gave BAHIA the free kick. BAHIA made a substitution. Carlos Massa replaced Viktor Uzeirović. After a rather tough play, L⚽renz⚽ Sp⚽RT Clube's Pedro Luiz Quadros got a free kick in the 7th minute. Benjamin Cordeiro made a fantastic save in the 8th minute, when Fausto Miranda sent off a good shot on target. The audience was convinced that Fausto Miranda's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Benjamin Cordeiro was relentless in the 9th minute of the game. After having played for 14 minutes, Pedro Luiz Hames managed to get in a good position for a shot on goal. BAHIA's supporters crossed their fingers, but Pedro Luiz Hames was, after a quick turn that froze the defenders, out of balance and shot the ball just to the right of the goal. After 16 minutes of play L⚽renz⚽ Sp⚽RT Clube's Pedro Luiz Quadros was too eager in his attempt to stop his opponent and brought him down. With that he got his second yellow card and was ordered off the ground. After 16 minutes of play, the referee blew the whistle. It was a penalty for L⚽renz⚽ Sp⚽RT Clube! The referee gave BAHIA a penalty, 18 minutes into the game. The penalty shot was made by Pedro Luiz Hames, who made a well placed shot into the net to the right of L⚽renz⚽ Sp⚽RT Clube's Benjamin Cordeiro. 1-0. In the 21st minute, Edgard Martins made a precise shot to the right of Benjamin Cordeiro. L⚽renz⚽ Sp⚽RT Clube's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 2-0. An unexpectedly hard shot by Fausto Miranda in the 26th minute of play forced L⚽renz⚽ Sp⚽RT Clube's goalkeeper Benjamin Cordeiro to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. BAHIA's Pedro Luiz Hames got a good chance for a goal in the 27th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. In a very dangerous position, a player in L⚽renz⚽ Sp⚽RT Clube fell when an opponent tried to get the ball from him in the 33rd minute. Penalty! When the match had been going on for 34 minutes, BAHIA's Pedro Luiz Hames got an opportunity to shoot a penalty. He stayed cool and waited for the goalkeeper to move, before he confidently shot the ball into the goal, to the left of Benjamin Cordeiro. If Pedro Luiz Hames had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 37th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. In the 45th minute, Carlos Esteves hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Juvenal Braga was the one to do the kick off. Benjamin Cordeiro showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Fausto Miranda in the 52nd minute of the match. After 53 played minutes L⚽renz⚽ Sp⚽RT Clube got a freekick which was hit by Carlos Esteves. Benjamin Cordeiro showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Fausto Miranda in the 55th minute of the match. Fausto Miranda sent away a hard shot on goal in the 59th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. In the 63rd minute, Pedro Luiz Hames ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Benjamin Cordeiro was frozen by the shot and now it was 4-0. Pedro Luiz Hames struck a weak shot in the 71st minute. Benjamin Cordeiro didn't even have to move as the ball rolled over the line well wide of the goal. A wasted opportunity for BAHIA. BAHIA's Mathias Souto proved his good apprehension of play when he, in the 76th minute of the match, managed to save BAHIA from getting a goal against them. 88 minutes into the match, Pedro Luiz Hames had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Benjamin Cordeiro. L⚽renz⚽ Sp⚽RT Clube's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Pedro Luiz Hames was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 6-0. The audience was convinced that Pedro Luiz Hames's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Benjamin Cordeiro was relentless in the 94th minute of the game. BAHIA walked away with a well-earned victory that was much celebrated by the crowd.