Overview
- Vitória, which beat Ceará 1–0 on Wednesday at the Barradão in Salvador, advanced to the Copa do Nordeste semifinals.
- Substitute Renato Kayzer scored at 29 minutes of the second half, finishing a loose ball after a corner to decide the match.
- Ceará finished with nine men after VAR confirmed a first-half red for Luizão and Alex Silva was sent off late for a hard foul.
- The result breaks a run of five straight Copa do Nordeste knockout eliminations suffered by Vitória against Ceará.
- Vitória faces ABC over two legs on May 20 and May 27, while Ceará misses out on an expected R$600,000 in prize money and closes its Nordestão take at R$1.75 million.