Bahia beats Botafogo away from home and takes second place in the Brasileirão

This Sunday, the 5th, the Botafogo received the Bahiain a match valid for the fifth round of the Brasileirão. Even playing away from home, Esquadrão de Aço sought victory to take second place in the competition.

The first half was very studied, with few great opportunities for both teams, but with a well-balanced game. While Botafogo wanted to keep the ball and play the style of Arthur JorgeBahia defended itself very well and tried to take advantage of the chances that appeared in the attacking field.

At 24', Savarino He had a great chance for Botafogo and ended up hitting the crossbar, but he was in an offside position and it was worthless. Bahia, in turn, opened the scoring with a penalty kick, which was awarded with the help of VAR due to a ball deflected off the arm of Hugo. In the lime mark, Everaldo took responsibility and sent it into the goal. Interval! 1 to 0.

On the way back to the second stage, with just two minutes, Fogão scored with Junior Santosbut the goal was disallowed due to offside Damian Suarez, who participated in the play. Even though it wasn't worth it, Botafogo showed a different attitude in the early stages of the final half.

Until, at 17 minutes, Jeffinho He had the opportunity to finish inside the area, taking advantage of Savarino's free kick, and sent in a volley to leave everything even. However, the Steel Squadron regained the advantage with Rafael Ratãowho dribbled John and scored a beautiful goal to leave Bahia in second place in the Brasileirão.