Chapecoense vs Botafogo - prediction, team news, lineups

Chapecoense invited Botafogo to Arena Conda connected Saturday for a Brasileiro Serie A clash, with some sides entering the fixture successful contrasting form.

While the hosts are battling to ascent retired of the relegation portion aft a hard tally of results, the visitors get with renewed assurance pursuing a melodramatic continental triumph and volition beryllium targeting 3 points to substance their propulsion up the table.

Match preview

Chapecoense instrumentality to enactment sitting 19th successful the Brasileiro standings with conscionable 8 points from 10 matches, leaving them heavy successful the relegation portion and nether increasing unit to crook their play around.

The recently promoted broadside person struggled to accommodate to beingness backmost successful the apical flight, and their astir caller league outing, a 2-0 decision distant to Athletico-PR, further exposed the challenges they are facing astatine this level, portion they played a goalless gully with Juventude successful the Copa Sul-Sudeste connected Thursday, making it 2 games without uncovering the net.

That effect against Athletico-PR extended a worrying tally of signifier who person present failed to triumph immoderate of their past 10 league games, with Chapecoense continuing to amusement antiaircraft vulnerabilities that person made it hard to vie consistently.

Despite their struggles, determination person been tiny positives, including a resilient location gully against Vitoria, which demonstrated their quality to respond nether unit and offered a glimpse of what they are susceptible of astatine Arena Conda.

With the backing of what is expected to beryllium a afloat stadium, this lucifer represents a important accidental for Fabio Matias's broadside to regain confidence, cod captious points and perchance ascent retired of the bottommost three.

Botafogo, meanwhile, get successful Chapeco afloat of content aft a thrilling 3-2 triumph implicit Racing successful the Copa Sudamericana, secured by a melodramatic stoppage-time victor from Danilo.

That effect saw the Rio broadside instrumentality power of Group E and could beryllium to beryllium a turning constituent successful their season, particularly aft a mixed tally of results domestically.

In the Brasileiro, Botafogo presently beryllium 11th with 13 points from 10 matches and were held to a 2-2 gully by Coritiba past clip out, a crippled successful which they fto a winning presumption slip.

However, the visitors person shown signs of attacking improvement, with players specified arsenic Arthur Cabral, Junior Santos and Danilo each playing cardinal roles successful caller performances.

If they tin construe their continental momentum into league form, Botafogo person the prime to propulsion toward the apical fractional and beyond successful the coming weeks.

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Team News

Chapecoense stay without Bruno Matias owed to injury, portion Giovani Augusto is simply a uncertainty and volition beryllium assessed up of kickoff.

Coach Mathias is expected to trust connected a compact structure, with Bolasie starring the onslaught and supported by Meritano, Enio and Italo arsenic the hosts look to exploit counter-attacking opportunities.

Botafogo besides person respective absentees to contend with, arsenic Joaquin Correa continues his betterment from a musculus issue, Marcal is sidelined with a genu wounded and Kaio Pantaleao remains unavailable pursuing surgery.

Despite those setbacks, Arthur Cabral is expected to pb the enactment erstwhile again aft his extremity against Racing, with Barrera and Santiago Rodriguez providing enactment successful attack.

In midfield, Medina and Danilo supply balance, portion Raul returns to extremity and the backmost 4 is formed by Vitinho, Bastos, Barboza and Alex Telles.

Chapecoense imaginable starting lineup:

Santos; Vinicius, Leonardo, Doma, Pacheco; Vitor, Camilo; Enio, Meritano, Vargas; Bolasie

Botafogo imaginable starting lineup:

Raul; Vitinho, Bastos, Barboza, Telles; Danilo, Medina; Rodriguez, Montoro, Barrera; Cabral

We say: Chapecoense 1-3 Botafogo

Chapecoense volition beryllium hopeless to respond successful beforehand of their location fans, but their antiaircraft fragility and deficiency of momentum marque this a hard trial against an improving opponent.

Botafogo get with assurance aft their midweek occurrence and person greater attacking quality, and we expect them to instrumentality vantage of the hosts' struggles to unafraid an important distant victory.

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