Botafogo 3-1 Corinthians: result and report

Serie A · Sunday 17 May 2026

Result

Botafogo 3-1 Corinthians

Serie A · Sunday 17 May 2026, 19:00 UTC · half-time 2-1

Botafogo · Corinthians

Botafogo 3-1 Corinthians: match report

Botafogo beat Corinthians 3-1 in Serie A on Sunday 17 May 2026. The half-time score was 2-1.

Arthur Cabral opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Botafogo's goals came from Arthur Cabral (7'), Arthur Cabral (32') and Arthur Cabral (70'). Corinthians scored through Rodrigo Garro (11').

Discipline: Botafogo received 6 yellow cards; Corinthians received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Botafogo were 14th on 18 points from 14 and Corinthians 15th on 18 points from 15. Botafogo went on to finish that season 13th with 39 points, and Corinthians 18th with 36.

Botafogo lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Corinthians in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Arthur Cabral of Botafogo (9.4), ahead of Rodrigo Garro (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Botafogo wins, 2 draws and 0 for Corinthians.

Going into the match Botafogo's last five read D-L-D-W-D and Corinthians's W-L-W-D-D.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Arthur CabralBotafogo · 1-0
  • 11'Goal · Rodrigo GarroCorinthians · 1-1
  • 20'Yellow card · Mateo PonteBotafogo
  • 32'Goal · Arthur CabralBotafogo · 2-1
  • 39'Yellow card · Cristian MedinaBotafogo
  • 45+6'Yellow card · Jesse LingardCorinthians
  • 70'Goal · Arthur CabralBotafogo · 3-1
  • 71'Yellow card · Arthur CabralBotafogo
  • 73'Yellow card · Lucas VillalbaBotafogo
  • 81'Yellow card · Alexander BarbozaBotafogo
  • 90'Yellow card · Alex TellesBotafogo

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Botafogo 2, draws 2, Corinthians 0.

Team news

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Botafogo line-up (4-2-3-1)

Neto, Mateo Ponte, Nahuel Ferraresi, Alexander Barboza, Alex Telles, Huguinho, Cristian Medina, Lucas Villalba, Kadir Barría, Álvaro Montoro, Arthur Cabral

Corinthians line-up (4-2-3-1)

Hugo Souza, Matheuzinho, André Ramalho, Gustavo Henrique, Matheus Bidu, André Carrillo, Raniele, Breno Bidon, Rodrigo Garro, Jesse Lingard, Yuri Alberto