About Match
6 points and 4 places separate them: Botafogo 12th with 30, Atlético Mineiro 8th with 36. Atlético Mineiro rank 2nd in the league on five-round form, well above their 8th table position. A win here leaves Botafogo on 33 points and up to 10th, other results permitting.
Atlético Mineiro have not lost in 14 games. The last-five ledger: Botafogo 3/15, Atlético Mineiro 9/15.
32 meetings are on record — 12 won by Botafogo, 12 by Atlético Mineiro, 8 drawn, at 2.72 goals per meeting. 1.6 goals per game in the last five meetings marks a drop from the historical 2.72.
Estádio Nilton Santos in Rio de Janeiro stages the fixture, a ground that holds 44,611.