Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas

I mean, the big names I, I look at right now that jump off the, the page, Brais Mendez from Spain.

Um, Santi Rodriguez just recently, the last r- big purchase from Botafogo.

Uh, Josef Martinez, who seems to always find the goal against us, uh, no matter what team he plays for.

And then there's, there's also a bunch of loans.

He actually ended his career to, to take that job.

He was at Botafogo, of course, also in Brazil.

Um, and he retired so he could take the AC Milan managerial role.

That didn't really work out.

From the Club World Cup.

They signed him from, was it Botafogo he was at before?

Botafogo in, yeah.

Yeah.

Um, next game was Chelsea 5-1 at, uh, Bour- Sorry, Chelsea 5-1 against Bournemouth at the, at the Bridge.

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I'm a Botafogo fan, right? And it wasn't too long ago, two years ago in the Libertadores finals, Botafogo was the clear-cut favorite against Athletico Mineiro, another team from Brazil.

And in the first minute, somebody that people might know here that played in MLS, Gregory, who played on Botafogo, got a red card in 30 seconds.

30 seconds of the game, Botafogo was down a man, so similar to this situation.

And so now Athletico Mineiro, who expected to be playing defensively for that entire game, now had to be on the front foot with more of the ball.

Long story short, Botafogo won the game 3-1, and I think it, it was kind of like what you're talking about, where y- you know, playing down so quickly and maybe the tactics change, that could potentially, you know, throw a little wrench into whatever the tactics were and now what they are going to turn into, right? However, now I'm gonna say...

I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you the opposite of this a little bit, because as much as I wanna give, you know, it's been only a couple weeks, um, with, with a new interim manager, and there are new ideas being placed, and guys are playing in different positions.

So there are...

So then let's stay in Rio.

Um, but let's talk Botafogo and Vasco da Gama.

Um, man, I thought Vasco looked good.

I thought Vasco looked good.

But I'll tell you who, uh, really looked good was that Alex Telles golasso.

It was a bit of a consolation goal, but every so often, and I think it must have been two years ago, that he s- was scoring those big time free kick goals, and he does so again here.

Botafogo, though, fall to Vasco da Gama, their city rivals, and they are increasingly in a bad position in the table.

They're not quite, I think, in the relegation scrap just yet.