Match Report
The table gap was wide: 21 points between Botafogo (1st, 70 pts) and Ponte Preta (10th, 49 pts). Recent form flatters Ponte Preta's table spot — 4th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 10th. Per game in the league, Ponte Preta were scoring 1.03 and conceding 1.05, Botafogo 1.47 and 0.82, against a competition average of 1.09 goals per team per game.
5 matches unbeaten backed Ponte Preta's arrival. Botafogo carried a 5-game unbeaten run into this.
The sides have met 8 times in the GioScore results database: 4 wins for Ponte Preta, 2 draws and 2 for Botafogo, at 1.88 goals per meeting. Whoever hosts gains little here: home teams have taken just 38% of the wins in this fixture. These meetings skew tight — only 25% saw more than two goals.
Estádio Moisés Lucarelli in Campinas staged the fixture, a ground that holds 19,722. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-0 the final score.




