Botafogo vs América Mineiro Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Botafogo

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Botafogo will be looking for another win after the 2-3 Copa Sudamericana success against Universidad César Vallejo.

For Botafogo, the scorers were Victor Sá (21'), Adryelson (31') and Gustavo Sauer (37'). Yorleys Mena (65') was the scorer for Universidad César Vallejo.

Botafogo haven’t been able to stop scoring goals, hitting the target every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 matches.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 12 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 7.

Analysis of their past results shows that Botafogo:

• are unbeaten in the league by América Mineiro in their previous 3 matches.
• have left without a victory over América Mineiro in their previous 2 league games.
• are unbeaten in their last 5 home league matches.

América Mineiro

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After a loss in their previous game against Defensa y Justicia in Copa Sudamericana competition, América Mineiro will be aiming to make amends here.

For América Mineiro, the goalscorers were Martín Benítez (11') and Gonzalo Mastriani (45'). Gastón Togni (29', 46') and Julián López (69') scored for Defensa y Justicia.

The stats tell the story, and América Mineiro have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 12 goals in total. In defence, América Mineiro have been far from perfect. That trend won’t necessarily follow through here, though.

Ahead of this clash, América Mineiro haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league games.

👥 Head to head

A look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 20/05/2018 shows us that Botafogo have won 1 of these and América Mineiro 3, with the number of draws being 2.

In all, 9 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 2 from Fogão and 7 coming from Coelho. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.5.

The last league game between these clubs was Serie A match day 26 on 11/09/2022 which finished with the scoreline of Botafogo 0-0 América Mineiro.

That day, Botafogo managed 47% possession and 20 attempts on goal with 5 on target.

At the other end, América Mineiro had 12 shots at goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by José Mendonça.

📋 Team News: Botafogo

Kayque (Cruciate Ligament Surgery), Matías Segovia (Hand Injury), Danilo Barbosa (Hamstring Injury), Patrick de Paula (Knee Injury), Breno (Knee Injury) and Eduardo (Unknown Injury) will not be taking part for Botafogo manager Luís Castro.

In our view, Fogão look set to go for a 4-2-3-1 system for this game with Lucas Perri, Rafael da Silva, Adryelson, Víctor Cuesta, Fernando Marcal, Gabriel Pires, Tchê Tchê, Gustavo Sauer, Carlos Eduardo, Luis Henrique and Júnior Santos.

🗞️ Team News: América Mineiro

With a fully injury-free group available to select from, the América Mineiro boss Vágner Mancini has no fitness worries at all coming into this clash.

From our viewpoint, Coelho might begin the game with a 4-3-3 lineup, starting the game with Mateus Pasinato, Marcinho, Iago Maidana, Wanderson, Danilo Avelar, Lucas Kal, Emmanuel Martinez, Breno Cascardo, Felipe Azevedo, Renato Marques and Everaldo.

💭 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, América Mineiro would be disappointed if they were not to find the back of the net against this Botafogo lineup, but it probably won’t be enough to avoid defeat.

We think that it’s going to be a close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Botafogo when all is said and done. Should be a good one.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 00:21 24/05/2023