About Match
5 points and 4 places separate them: Botafogo 12th with 30, Vasco da Gama 16th with 25. Recent form flatters Vasco da Gama's table spot — 11th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 16th. In league terms the two rates read 1.54/1.67 for Botafogo and 1.13/1.63 for Vasco da Gama (scored/conceded per game); the competition average is 1.32. A win would lift Botafogo to 33 points and up to 10th (other results unchanged).
Momentum sits with Vasco da Gama, winners of their last three. Over the last five, Botafogo have taken 3 of 15 points to Vasco da Gama's 12.
The sides have met 28 times in the GioScore results database: 13 wins for Botafogo, 5 draws and 10 for Vasco da Gama, at 2.93 goals per meeting.
Estádio Nilton Santos in Rio de Janeiro stages the fixture, a ground that holds 44,611.