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Estádio de Jogadores
Spectators: 7630 (Terracing: 5725, Seating: 1755, VIP seats: 150) Palmeira's Mário Saldanha started the match with a crisp pass. The crowd had been anticipating this game for weeks and the excitement in the stadium was easily visible. After some careless play in the Clube de Jogadores defense, Mário Saldanha kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Luís Eduardo Damião. The Clube de Jogadores fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Luís Eduardo Damião should have stopped the shot. Luís Eduardo Damião showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Arlindo Messias, who was totally free with the ball in the 7th minute. Luís Eduardo Damião made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Mário Saldanha in the 8th minute of play. Luís Eduardo Damião made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Adhemar Sá in the 10th minute of play. After 12 minutes Palmeira's defender was forced to head the ball over the line for a corner. It was Dedé Lira who took care of the corner kick. In the 15th minute the ball was on its way in behind Clube de Jogadores's goalkeeper Luís Eduardo Damião, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. Jonathan Hames received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 18th minute. Ediberto Rossi tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Clube de Jogadores's Luís Eduardo Damião played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Adhemar Sá in the 21st minute of play. Luís Eduardo Damião showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Adhemar Sá, who was totally free with the ball in the 21st minute. Ediberto Rossi showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Dênis Valle, who was totally free with the ball in the 25th minute. 28 minutes into the game, Mário Saldanha cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-2. Luís Eduardo Damião was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. Luís Eduardo Damião made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Arlindo Messias in the 34th minute of play. In the 36th minute Arlindo Messias shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Luís Eduardo Damião saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Luís Eduardo Damião made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Arlindo Messias in the 40th minute of play. After a rather tough play, Clube de Jogadores's Doriva Linares got a free kick in the 42nd minute. 45 minutes into the match, Palmeira's goal looked a bit too open when Dênis Valle came free, but Ediberto Rossi reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Luck had favoured the away team in the first, and they walked off with a 0-2 lead.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Dênis Valle stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. Sydney Braga hit a great freekick 52 minutes into the match. Clube de Jogadores's Luís Eduardo Damião played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Mário Saldanha in the 54th minute of play. Mário Saldanha succeeded in the game's 56th minute to shoot an unreachable shot under the crossbar and scored - 0-3. An unexpectedly hard shot by Dênis Valle in the 61st minute of play forced Palmeira's goalkeeper Ediberto Rossi to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. After 63 played minutes Palmeira got a freekick which was hit by Adhemar Sá. Ediberto Rossi showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Dênis Valle in the 64th minute of the match. Luís Eduardo Damião made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Mário Saldanha in the 67th minute of play. Luís Eduardo Damião made an important save on a dangerous shot by Arlindo Messias in the 72nd minute. Luís Eduardo Damião showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Frederico Negri in the 74th minute of the match. Luís Eduardo Damião made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Adhemar Sá in the 75th minute of play. Palmeira made a substitution. Raphael Severo replaced Mário Saldanha. Palmeira's Leo Carbol was substituted for Dorian de Souza. In the 86th minute, Durval Nascimento ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Ediberto Rossi was frozen by the shot and now it was 1-4. Luís Eduardo Damião stood somewhat misplaced when Adhemar Sá came free in front of goal and shot 1-5 to the left of him in the 91 minute. Luís Eduardo Damião made a fantastic save in the 94th minute, when Arlindo Messias sent off a good shot on target. When the match was over Palmeira could go home with a victory in their luggage, having controlled the game far better than Clube de Jogadores throughout the match.