Santos 2-1 Botafogo: result and report

Serie A · Sunday 17 January 2021

Result

Santos 2-1 Botafogo

Serie A · Sunday 17 January 2021, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

Santos · Botafogo · Serie A predictions

Santos 2-1 Botafogo: match report

Santos beat Botafogo 2-1 in Serie A on Sunday 17 January 2021. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Yeferson Soteldo opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Santos's goals came from Yeferson Soteldo (4') and Bruno Marques (82'). Botafogo scored through Pedro Raul (45+2', penalty).

Discipline: Santos received 2 yellow cards; Botafogo received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Santos were 9th on 42 points from 28 and Botafogo 20th on 23 points from 29. Santos went on to finish that season 8th with 54 points, and Botafogo 20th with 27.

Santos lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Botafogo in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Yeferson Soteldo of Santos (8.4), ahead of Marinho (8.1).

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

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Yeferson SoteldoSantos · 1-0
  • 30'Yellow card · KevinBotafogo
  • 30'Yellow card · LaércioSantos
  • 33'Yellow card · Yeferson SoteldoSantos
  • 45+2'Penalty goal · Pedro RaulBotafogo · 1-1
  • 82'Goal · Bruno MarquesSantos · 2-1
  • 89'GoalBotafogo

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Santos 1, draws 1, Botafogo 0.

Team news

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

Vladimir, Pará, Laércio, Alex, Felipe Jonatan, Sandry, Diego Pituca, Lucas Braga, Marinho, Yeferson Soteldo, Kaio Jorge

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

Diego Loureiro, Kevin, Marcelo Benevenuto, Kanu, Victor Luís, Zé Welison, Caio Alexandre, Kelvin Oliveira, Matheus Babi, Bruno Nazário, Pedro Raul