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Botafogo First Half Goals
In 270 Brasileirão matches, 64.8% of Botafogo’s first halves produced a goal, 21st of the 28 published clubs in the division. They scored before halftime in 41.1% of them and conceded in 45.6%.
What Botafogo’s first halves look like
Botafogo are close to two different sides either side of the coach door: a first-half goal of their own in 49.3% of home matches, 33.1% of away ones, 16.2pp between them. Travel costs Botafogo at the back: 51.5% of their away matches bring an early goal against, next to 39.6% of home ones.
Botafogo attack the first half better than they guard it: 14th of 28 in the division for scoring before halftime, 20th for keeping the other side out. There is more record to read here than for most of the division: 270 matches against a typical 213.
First halves here rarely stop at one: where Botafogo’s matches produce an early goal, a second follows 49% of the time, against 43% across the division. Botafogo come off slightly worse in the early exchanges: one against before the break in 45.6% of matches, one of their own in 41.1%.
Every figure on this page rests on 270 completed Botafogo matches over 9 seasons (2017 to 2026). That is a large enough sample that the venue rows above are worth reading as two separate records rather than one split in half.
Botafogo first-half profile
| A goal before halftime (over 0.5) | 64.8% |
|---|---|
| Two or more (over 1.5) | 31.5% |
| Three or more (over 2.5) | 9.6% |
| Average first-half goals in their matches | 1.08 |
| Matches in which they scored before halftime | 41.1% |
| Matches in which they conceded before halftime | 45.6% |
| First-half goals scored per match | 0.53 |
| First-half goals conceded per match | 0.55 |
| Matches counted | 270 |
| Seasons covered | 9 (2017 to 2026) |
The over rows count goals by either side; the scored and conceded rows split that between them.
Home and away
| Venue | Over 0.5 | Over 1.5 | Scored | Conceded | Avg goals | Matches |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 66.4% | 32.1% | 49.3% | 39.6% | 1.11 | 134 |
| Away | 63.2% | 30.9% | 33.1% | 51.5% | 1.04 | 136 |
Botafogo score before halftime 49.3% of the time at home against 33.1% away, a gap of 16.2pp. Each row rests only on the matches played at that venue, so read them as two separate samples rather than one split in half.
Botafogo against Brasileirão
| Line | Botafogo | Brasileirão | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Over 0.5 | 64.8% | 67.1% | −2.3pp |
| Over 1.5 | 31.5% | 29.0% | +2.5pp |
| Over 2.5 | 9.6% | 9.0% | +0.6pp |
Counted from 270 matches · 9 seasons · 2017 to 2026.
How to read these numbers
- These are historical rates over pooled seasons, not a forecast. A club that has changed manager, division or squad reads as the average of every version of itself on record.
- The opponent matters as much as the club. A high-scoring side against a defense that rarely concedes early is a different fixture from the same side against one that does.
For the model’s estimate of an actual upcoming fixture rather than this club’s history, see first half goals predictions and how the model works.
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