Botafogo 2-1 Sport Recife: result and report

Botafogo 2-1 Sport Recife

Serie A · Monday 17 July 2017, 23:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Botafogo beat Sport Recife 2-1 in Serie A on Monday 17 July 2017. The half-time score was 1-1.

Rodrigo Lindoso opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Botafogo's goals came from Rodrigo Lindoso (2') and Guilherme Augusto (70'). Sport Recife scored through Rithely (9').

Discipline: Botafogo received 4 yellow cards; Sport Recife received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Botafogo were 11th on 19 points from 13 and Sport Recife 6th on 21 points from 13. Botafogo went on to finish that season 10th with 53 points, and Sport Recife 15th with 45.

Botafogo lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Sport Recife in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Rodrigo Lindoso of Botafogo (8.2), ahead of Joel Carli (7.7).

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