Botafogo 1-2 Fluminense: result and report

Botafogo 1-2 Fluminense

Serie A · Saturday 4 November 2017, 21:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Botafogo were beaten by Fluminense 1-2 in Serie A on Saturday 4 November 2017. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Marcos Vinícius opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Botafogo's goal came from Marcos Vinícius (1'). Fluminense scored through Marcos Júnior (62') and Matheus Alessandro (88').

Discipline: Botafogo received 4 yellow cards; Fluminense received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Botafogo were 6th on 48 points from 31 and Fluminense 13th on 39 points from 31. Botafogo went on to finish that season 10th with 53 points, and Fluminense 14th with 47.

Botafogo lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Fluminense in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Gustavo Scarpa of Fluminense (8.6), ahead of Matheus Alessandro (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Botafogo win, 0 draws and 0 for Fluminense.

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