📊 Form Guide

Ceará

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Ceará prepare for this game following on from a 1-1 Serie A drawn result versus Sport Recife.

In that game, Ceará had 42% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 8 of them on target. The only player to score for Ceará was Raul (83'). Sport Recife had 17 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Cariús (87') was the scorer for Sport Recife.

Leo Condé's Ceará have scored 7 times over their past 6 outings. Conversely, the tally of goals that have been scored against them in those same games stands at 5.

Taking a look at their past results, Ceará:

• have not registered a win against Botafogo in their last 3 league matches.
• are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Botafogo

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Since tasting defeat last time out to Flamengo in Serie A action, Botafogo will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Botafogo managed 40% possession and 16 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Flamengo got 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Pedro (40'), Araújo (70') and Gonzalo Plata (80') scored for Flamengo.

The numbers tell their own story, and Botafogo have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 9 goals in all. At the back, Botafogo just haven’t been too solid at all. We will have to find out if that trend will end up being sustained into this next match.

Coming into this clash, Botafogo haven’t won away from home in the past 4 league games.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their prior head to head meetings stretching back to 08/12/2019 shows us that Ceará have won 1 of these games and Botafogo 2, with the number of draws being 3.

A combined total of 20 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 9 from Vovô and 11 coming from Fogão. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.33.

The last league contest between these clubs was Serie A match day 10 on 04/06/2025 which finished with the scoreline of Botafogo 3-2 Ceará.

In that match, Botafogo had 68% possession and 3 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Goals were scored by Gonzalo Mastriani (45'), Telles (72') and Freitas (77').

For their opponents, Ceará had 2 shots at goal with 0 of them on target. Raul (57', 87') was the scorer.

The referee was Edina Alves Batista.

📋 Team News: Ceará

The Ceará manager Leo Condé will be thankful to have no fitness worries at all ahead of this clash owing to a fully healthy group available for selection.

It’s our opinion that Vovô will possibly opt for a 4-2-3-1 formation this time, utilising Bruno Ferreira, Fabiano, Marllon, Willian Machado, Matheus Bahia, Lourenço, Vinicius Zanocelo, Antonio Galeano, Lucas Mugni, Fernandinho and Pedro Raul.

🗞️ Team News: Botafogo

Due to a fully injury-free squad ready to go, the Botafogo boss Davide Ancelotti has zero fitness worries to report ahead of this game.

We reckon that Fogão seem most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting the game with Léo Linck, Vitinho, David Ricardo, Fernando Marcal, Cuiabano, Allan, Newton Araujo, Artur, Joaquin Correa, Santiago Rodríguez and Chris Ramos.

🧠 Prediction

We feel that Botafogo and Ceará could both find goals hard to come by here.

We’ll have to see, but a draw might be on the cards. We’re therefore predicting a very competitive game with a 0-0 draw at the end of the match.

Andre Moura, 10:22 19/10/2025