Ipiranga-RS defeated Floresta 4-1 in the Regular Season round 16 of Brazil's Serie C on Sunday. Alex Goncalves opened the scoring in the twenty-first minute before Mago added a second just before half-time. Nicolas restored the visitors' hopes with a goal in the sixty-second minute, but M. Lima sealed the result eight minutes later.
And here's the thing about that first half — Ipiranga-RS took the lead and never looked back. Goncalves' strike came after Garraty had picked up a yellow card for the hosts. Mago doubled the advantage at thirty-nine minutes, and the visitors had already seen Matheus Martins cautioned before the interval.
The second half shifted the momentum further. Nicolas made it 3-1 in the sixty-second minute after a series of substitutions had changed the game. Danrley came on for Ipiranga-RS at forty-two, and Jhony Douglas followed at sixty-three. Mago was replaced at seventy-five, and Cleiton came on at sixty-nine for the visitors.
By then the match had settled into something predictable. Ipiranga-RS registered four shots on target against Floresta's single attempt, though both sides accumulated one hundred and eight or more attacks. The difference between the teams was not in volume but in finishing — Floresta pushed nine shots wide while their one on target failed to trouble the goalkeeper.
The result leaves Ipiranga-RS in ninth place with twenty-nine points from nineteen games. Floresta remain fifth on thirty points, their eight wins and six draws keeping them ahead. The visitors have now played five matches since their last meeting, winning one and drawing three.