Match Report
2 points and 1 places separated them: Botafogo SP 16th with 42, Ferroviária 17th with 40. Recent form flatters Botafogo SP's table spot — 5th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 16th. Per game in the league, Botafogo SP were scoring 0.84 and conceding 1.37, Ferroviária 1.13 and 1.37, against a competition average of 1.11 goals per team per game.
A win had eluded Ferroviária for 6 matches.
5 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Botafogo SP 3, draws 0, Ferroviária 2, at 2.6 goals per meeting. The host's record in this fixture is thin — 40% of meetings won. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings.
Estádio Santa Cruz in Ribeirão Preto, capacity 29,292, hosted the game. On the scoreboard, it was 0-0 at the break; 3 second-half goals set the final 1-2.
Goal scorers
Botafogo SP: Guilherme Queiróz (71') · Ferroviária: Juninho (54'), Carlão (60')