Botafogo RJ – Ceara Prediction & Picks (06.06.2018)

Botafogo and Ceará meet at Estádio Nilton Santos, in a match for the 10th round of Serie A. The record of direct confrontations of the last 3 years is favorable to the visiting team, which in the last 4 matches won 2, drew 1 and lost 1. The last direct confrontation between these two teams, on 21-10-2015, ended with Ceará’s victory by (0-1).

Botafogo:

After 3 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses, the home team is currently in the 12 th position, with 12 points won. In the penultimate match, they lost in an away match against São Paulo, by (3-2). In the last match, they won in an away match against Vasco da Gama, by (1-2). In the last 4 home league matches Botafogo has won 2 and tied 2, for which they have won 8 points out of 12 possible.

For this competition, he does not lose in his stadium 4 games ago. They have not been very strong defensively, since they have suffered goals in the last 9 matches, but their offense has scored frequently, since they have scored goals in 7 of the last 9 matches for this competition. In 9 matches in this tournament, they suffered the first goal 5 times and never got the comeback. There is 1 period that stands out in the last 20 home matches for all competitions: they have suffered 10 of their 25 goals between minutes (31′-45 ‘).

Botafogo is a club that has already conquered the Serie A of the Brazilian Championship twice throughout its history, being the most recent title conquered in the year of 1995. In the Carioca Championship this year was champion, after defeating the rival Basque da Gama in a shoot-out on penalties, 3-4. In the Serie A of the Brazilian Championship, the team is trying to get close to the first places of the table, being at this moment three points behind the fourth classified. In the last five games they played at home, they all scored more than 1.5 goals, showing that the team usually plays open games at Nilton Santos Stadium. We believe that in this game this pattern will be re-registered, as the Botafogo, to specify the victory, will start for the attack in search of goals.

Ceará:

The away team is currently in the 20 th position of the league, with 3 points won, after 3 draws and 6 losses. In the penultimate match, they lost in an away match against Chapecoense, by (2-0). In the last match, they lost in a home match against Cruzeiro, by (0-1). For the championship, Ceará won 1 point out of 12 possible points, after 1 draw and 3 losses in the last 4 matches they played as a visitor.

In this competition, he lost the last 4 matches and did not win any of the last 9 matches he played. Defensive consistency has not been their best feature, as they have conceded goals in 8 of the last 9 matches for this competition. This is a team that has presented difficulties in opening the scoring and who only managed to score the first goal once in the last 9 games for Serie A. In 9 matches in this competition, he never got the comeback in the 7 games he suffered in the first goal.

Ceará is a Northeast Brazilian club that never won the title of the Brazilian Serie A Championship. The team played the Brazilian Serie B Championship in 2017 and finished in third place, thus guaranteeing the promotion to the first division of football. Brazilian. In this season of 2018, the team was champion from Ceará and in the Brazilian Championship of Serie A it is currently in the penultimate position of the table. His situation in the competition is due in large part to the bad displays outside the home, because in four games away from home he lost three and tied one and suffered goals in all these games. In the last two times in which Ceará visited the Botafogo field he scored goals, so we think he has the hypothesis to repeat it and score at least one goal in this game.