About Match
Botafogo go into the game 12th in the table on 22 points; Santos sit 15th on 21 — a 1-point gap. Santos have been over-performing their table position on recent form: 9th in the league over the last five rounds against 15th overall. Three points here take Botafogo to 25 and up to 8th, assuming other results stand.
The sides have met 26 times in the GioScore results database: 8 wins for Botafogo, 8 draws and 10 for Santos, at 1.92 goals per meeting. These meetings skew tight — only 31% saw more than two goals. Recent editions have opened up: 2.8 goals per game across the last five meetings against 1.92 historically.