Botafogo 2-0 Sport Recife: result and report

Botafogo 2-0 Sport Recife

Serie A · Sunday 21 August 2016, 00:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Botafogo won against Sport Recife 2-0 in Serie A on Sunday 21 August 2016. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Sassá opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Botafogo's goals came from Sassá (45+2'), Sassá (52') and Camilo (90+2'). Sport Recife did not score.

Discipline: Botafogo received 2 yellow cards; Sport Recife received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Botafogo were 20th on 13 points from 19 and Sport Recife 16th on 21 points from 20. Botafogo went on to finish that season 11th with 50 points, and Sport Recife 17th with 44.

Botafogo lined up in a 4-3-2-1 and Sport Recife in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Sassá of Botafogo (7.8), ahead of Reinaldo Lenis (7.7).

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

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