Match Report
Botafogo PB went into the game 3rd in the table on 15 points; Bahia sat 1st on 18 — a 3-point gap. Botafogo PB had been under-performing their position — 8th on five-round form against 3rd in the table. Against a league average of 1.16 goals per team per game, Botafogo PB ran at 1.13 scored and 0.38 conceded, Bahia at 1.38 and 1.
Bahia entered with three wins in a row, having scored in 12 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Botafogo PB 5/15, Bahia 13/15.
The sides have met 4 times in the GioScore results database: 1 win for Botafogo PB, 1 draw and 2 for Bahia, at 1.5 goals per meeting. History gives the home side just 0% of the wins in this matchup. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 25% of the meetings went over two goals.
The match was played at Estádio José Américo de Almeida Filho in Joao Pessoa (capacity 25,000). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 4 more goals closed it at 4-0.