Pasu Ferreira and San-Joao-Ver played out a 1-1 draw in League 3's fifth round on Sunday. The result keeps both sides at the bottom of the table, though San-Joao-Ver hold a single point advantage. To be fair, neither side had much to celebrate from this encounter.
Luisinho gave the hosts the lead in the forty-second minute. San-Joao-Ver had already seen B. Morais booked in the fortieth, and by the forty-seventh he was off after picking up a second yellow. That changed the shape of things considerably.
The visitors spent most of the match with ten men. They equalised through Joao Pedro in the eighty-second, but the goal came after they had been chasing the game for nearly forty minutes. And here's the thing — it wasn't the breakthrough they might have expected.
Pasu Ferreira dominated possession and attacks, registering 132 to 76. Yet they managed only one shot on target all evening. The visitors, with fewer attacks, produced two shots on target. The numbers don't tell the whole story of this match.
Both sides have now played five games without a win. Pasu Ferreira remain on two points, while San-Joao-Ver sit on three. The table goes out of the window in these games, but the reality is that both clubs are looking for something to change.