It's early days in the Carioca 1 and both Portuguesa RJ and Botafogo are still hoping for a flying start in order to set the tone for the season. Three points can make a big difference at this stage.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Carioca 1.
Portuguesa RJ form and stats
0-1-0 (win-draw-lost) are the Carioca 1 numbers at home for Portuguesa RJ, who have the most clean sheets (3) at home in Carioca 1, so far this season.
A draw after 90 minutes last time out for Portuguesa, who played 0-0 against Boavista. That match was also played at this venue (Estádio Luso-Brasileiro). A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Flamengo.
Portuguesa RJ has scored 0 goals so far and conceded 0 goals from 1 home game. These are numbers from the league only.
Botafogo form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team on their Carioca 1 travels is 0 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat. It's all red in the travel logs of Botafogo, having lost five matches in a row as the visiting team.
Botafogo won their last game, 6-2 versus Cabofriense played at home. Preceding that match was the 1-1 draw at home vs Bangu.
As mentioned above, Botafogo was the only team on the pitch versus Cabofriense in their previous game, winning 6-2. This could be a tougher task.
0 goals so far away for Botafogo, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 3. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
As for the last three games between these two teams, there's zero Portuguesa victories, one draw and two Botafogo wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Medeiros Oliveira Santos 4 goals |
Portuguesa RJ missing players
Botafogo missing players
| Portuguesa RJ | Botafogo | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 15 | 6 | 0 | Played | P | 0 | 4 | 10 |
| 6 | 4 | 0 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| 22 | 12 | 0 | Scored | S | 0 | 0 | 15 |
| 18 | 6 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 9 | 15 |
| 93% | 83% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 73% | 67% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 75% | 80% |
| 40% | 50% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 50% | 60% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 20% |
| 27% | 50% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 47% | 50% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 0% | 50% |
| 27% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 33% | 17% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 100% | 40% |
| 5.2 | 5.3 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 4.8 | 4.7 |
| 4.3 | 3.3 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 5 | 5.1 |
| 2.7 | 3.2 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.5 | 2 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 131 | 63 | 0 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 35 | 130 |
| 59 | 34 | 0 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 12 | 48 |
| 37% | 35% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 0% | 31% |
- Botafogo has the fewest clean sheets (0) away
- Botafogo has the fewest matches under the total-line (4)
- Botafogo has the fewest scored goals (0) away
- Botafogo has the most matches over the total-line (6)
- Botafogo have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Botafogo have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Botafogo have failed to score a single goal away.
- Botafogo have lost all their away matches so far.
- Botafogo haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Portuguesa RJ has the fewest conceded goals (0) at home
- Portuguesa RJ has the fewest scored goals (0) at home
- Portuguesa RJ has the most clean sheets (3) at home
- Portuguesa RJ has the most dropped points from leading position (7)
- Portuguesa RJ has the most matches under the total-line (9)
- Portuguesa RJ has the most scored goals in the first half (11)
- Portuguesa RJ have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Portuguesa RJ have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Botafogo have scored away.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Flamengo | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 12 |
| 2 | Botafogo | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | Boavista | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 4 | Portuguesa RJ | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 | Bangu | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -3 | 4 |
| 6 | Cabofriense | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 8 | -12 | 0 |