Fortaleza vs Botafogo Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Fortaleza

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Fortaleza will be hoping to return to winning ways here following the 0-1 Serie A loss in their previous game against Cruzeiro.

In that match, Fortaleza had 53% possession and 18 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Cruzeiro had 7 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Bruno Rodrigues (80') scored for Cruzeiro.

Fortaleza have really struggled up front in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure stands at just 4 vs opponents over their previous 6 fixtures. In those games, Fortaleza have also seen the tally of goals against them total 9.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Fortaleza:

• are winless against Botafogo in their previous 3 league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 2 league matches.

Botafogo

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Previously, Botafogo drew 2-2 in the Serie A tie with Red Bull Bragantino.

In that match, Botafogo had 35% possession and 11 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. For Botafogo, the scorers were Victor Sá (35') and Carlos Eduardo (37'). Red Bull Bragantino got 25 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. Thiago Borbas (3', 96') scored for Red Bull Bragantino.

Looking at their form, and Botafogo have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, with opponents netting 13 goals in all. At the back, Botafogo seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly. Let’s find out whether or not that trend will end up being sustained in this game.

Their past results show that Botafogo:

• remain undefeated by Fortaleza in games played away from home for the previous 2 matches in the league.
• have not won away from home in their last 2 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 30/09/2019 shows us that Fortaleza have won 2 of these games & Botafogo 3, with the number of drawn results standing at 1.

An aggregate of 14 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 5 for Fortaleza and 9 created by Fogão. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.33.

The previous league match featuring these sides was Serie A match day 10 on 11/06/2023 which ended up with the score at Botafogo 2-0 Fortaleza.

In that game, Botafogo had 55% possession and 21 shots at goal with 10 on target. Their only player to score was Tiquinho Soares (45', 63').

Fortaleza had 9 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Wilton Pereira Sampaio.

📰 Team News: Fortaleza

Regarding absentees, there’s just the sole fitness concern for the Fortaleza gaffer Juan Vojvoda to be concerned with from a near full-strength set of players. Hércules (Cruciate ligament tear) misses out.

📰 Team News: Botafogo

Botafogo boss Tiago Nunes has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Rafael (Knee injury) and Patrick de Paula (Knee injury) can’t be considered.

🔮 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Botafogo may find it difficult to score goals against this Fortaleza outfit who will likely be able to get on the scoresheet themselves in a winning performance.

We’ve gone for a good tussle with a 1-0 victory for Fortaleza when the referee blows for full-time.

Let’s see what happens.

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Lucas Pereira, 00:09 19/11/2023