Caldas and Lusitano Évora 1911 met in the second round of Liga 3 on Saturday evening, and neither side could find a way through. The match ended 0:0 in a contest that belonged more to caution than ambition. By then, both clubs had already played four league games and sat on identical totals of four points.
The first yellow card came at the sixteenth minute when D. Izata went through the referee's notebook. To be fair, the game had already established a nervous tone. Then at the twenty-third minute D. Sequeira added his name, and just two minutes later he was back in trouble. And here's the thing — the double booking meant he would not finish the match, and the substitution board lit up at the hour mark when he was replaced.
G. Chaves picked up a caution at thirty-seven, while J. Pinto joined the list at fifty-eight. The substitutions kept coming after the break, with Tarzan, O. Diagne, and several others brought on as the game wore on. D. Izata came off at forty-six, and D. Clemente and D. Fernandes both found themselves booked in the closing stages.
Lusitano held possession at fifty-two percent and registered six shots on target, yet none found the net. Caldas managed forty-eight percent of the ball and could not muster a single shot on target from their sixty-eight attacks. And here's the thing — six shots on target and not a goal is a strange arithmetic. The statistics suggest a game where chances were created but not taken, or perhaps not properly finished.
Both teams remain on four points after four matches, separated only by position in the table. Caldas sit seventh and Lusitano sixth, though the gap between them is meaningless until someone breaks the pattern. The draw keeps them in the same place, and neither side looks like it has found its rhythm yet.