Liga Portugal: Sporting Braga anticipated to subdue Boavista

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Competition: Portugal Liga Portugal
Competition: Sun 24.Sep
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Estádio Municipal de Braga (30286 seats)

Sporting Braga battle Boavista for honour and success.

Insights:
  • Sporting Braga have yet to win a game at home.
  • Boavista have the most scored goals (14) in Liga Portugal

The hosts Braga saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Champions League. This match was also played here at Estádio Municipal de Braga. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Boavista have had more rest.

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Sporting Braga form and stats

The overall Liga Portugal results playing at home this season for Sporting Braga are 0-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Sporting Braga's previous fixture was also a home event, the defeat 1-2 versus Napoli (in Champions League). Musrati (midfield) was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.13/10. Musrati hit one key pass and had 73 successful passes (of 81 total).

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Farense (1-3).

Goals from both teams! That has occurred in 5 league rounds in a row for this club. Could it happen again?

There will be little rest for Sporting Braga after this match as they are travelling to Estrela Amadora for a Liga Portugal game in only four days.

Sporting Braga has scored {2 goals} so far and conceded {3 goals} from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Boavista form and stats

Boavista are yet to lose a point on their Liga Portugal travels this season with 2 wins from 2 away games.

Boavista won their last game, 4-1 versus Chaves played at home. Boavista goalie Gonçalves was high and low in the Chaves game, contributing eight saves towards the victory. Boženík, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 9.6. Boženík scored two goals, served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Preceding that game was the away victory against Estoril with the score of 2-1.

Both teams to score at least one goal each? This club's fresh fixtures suggest that, having played 5 league matches in a row with one or more goals from each team.

It's early days yet, but Boavista has scored 6 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (2 games).

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sporting Braga four wins, three draws and Boavista three victories. As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

BoavistaR. Boženík
R. Boženík
5 goals
BragaS. Banza
S. Banza
3 goals
BoavistaT. Fontoura Fonseca Morais
T. Fontoura Fonseca Morais
3 goals

Sporting Braga missing players

Boavista missing players

Sporting Braga Boavista
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
5 2 1 Played P 0 2 5
2 0 0 Won W 0 2 4
1 1 1 Drew D 0 0 1
2 1 0 Lost L 0 0 0
10 2 1 Scored S 0 6 14
10 3 1 Conceded C 0 2 6
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 100%
80% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 80%
60% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 60%
40% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 50% 60%
100% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 100% 100%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
4.4 3.5 4 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.5 4.8
4.4 3 2 Corners against (avg) C A 0 10.5 8
2.8 3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.5 2.2
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
13.2 10.5 9 Shots (avg) S ( 0 12 11.4
4.2 2.5 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 7 5.8
48% 40% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 43% 48%
 
12.6 9.5 6 Shots against (avg) S A 0 11 14
4 3.5 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 4 5.8
Key stats in Liga Portugal this season:
  • All of Boavista's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • All of Sporting Braga's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Boavista have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Boavista have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Boavista have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Boavista have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Boavista have the most scored goals (14) in Liga Portugal
  • Boavista have the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Liga Portugal
  • Boavista have the the best goal difference (+8) in Liga Portugal
  • Boavista have won all their away games so far.
  • Boavista have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Boavista haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sporting Braga have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Sporting Braga have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Sporting Braga have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Sporting Braga have yet to win a game at home.
  • Sporting Braga haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
Sporting Braga Last season Boavista
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
34 17   Played P   17 34
25 13   Won W   4 12
3 2   Drew D   2 8
6 2   Lost L   11 14
75 40   Scored S   20 43
30 11   Conceded C   33 54
97% 94%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   100% 94%
74% 65%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   76% 74%
59% 47%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   65% 59%
35% 35%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   47% 35%
29% 35%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   18% 18%
38% 29%   BTTS BTTS   59% 62%
50% 59%   Clean Sheets C S   6% 18%
15% 18%   Failed to Score F T   35% 26%
 
5.9 6.4   Corners for (avg) C F   4.4 5.3
4.4 3.9   Corners against (avg) C A   5.2 4.9
2.5 2.4   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   3.3 3.1
6 0   Red cards R C   2 6
 
16.1 17.9   Shots (avg) S (   9.8 11
6.5 6.8   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.3 3.7
34% 35%   Goal Efficiency G E   36% 34%
 
11 10.4   Shots against (avg) S A   12.7 11.2
3.4 3.2   Shots on Target against (avg) S O   5.5 4.1

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Boavista 5 4 1 0 14 6 3 2 1 0 8 4 2 2 0 0 6 2 8 13
2 Sporting CP 5 4 1 0 10 4 3 3 0 0 7 2 2 1 1 0 3 2 6 13
3 Porto 5 4 1 0 8 4 2 1 1 0 3 2 3 3 0 0 5 2 4 13
4 Benfica 5 4 0 1 13 6 2 2 0 0 6 0 3 2 0 1 7 6 7 12
5 Vitoria Guimaraes 5 3 0 2 6 7 3 2 0 1 5 3 2 1 0 1 1 4 -1 9
6 Casa Pia 5 2 2 1 7 4 2 0 1 1 2 3 3 2 1 0 5 1 3 8
7 Famalicao 5 2 2 1 4 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 3 1 1 1 3 3 1 8
8 Sporting Braga 5 2 1 2 10 10 2 0 1 1 2 3 3 2 0 1 8 7 0 7
9 Gil Vicente 5 2 0 3 13 9 3 2 0 1 12 6 2 0 0 2 1 3 4 6
10 Farense 5 2 0 3 9 7 3 2 0 1 8 4 2 0 0 2 1 3 2 6
11 Arouca 5 1 3 1 8 8 3 1 1 1 5 5 2 0 2 0 3 3 0 6
12 Rio Ave 5 1 2 2 5 6 3 1 1 1 4 3 2 0 1 1 1 3 -1 5
13 Portimonense 5 1 2 2 5 12 2 0 1 1 2 5 3 1 1 1 3 7 -7 5
14 Vizela 5 1 1 3 6 9 3 1 1 1 4 4 2 0 0 2 2 5 -3 4
15 Estrela Amadora 5 1 1 3 3 6 3 1 0 2 2 3 2 0 1 1 1 3 -3 4
16 Moreirense 5 1 1 3 5 9 2 0 0 2 3 5 3 1 1 1 2 4 -4 4
17 Estoril 5 1 0 4 10 13 2 1 0 1 3 2 3 0 0 3 7 11 -3 3
18 Chaves 5 0 0 5 4 17 2 0 0 2 3 6 3 0 0 3 1 11 -13 0

Read more about Liga Portugal

The Primeira Liga, also known as Liga NOS, is the top level of football in Portugal. It has 18 teams each playing 34 fixtures to decide the final league table. Portuguese football is dominated by “The Big Three”: Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP (Lisbon). These three clubs generally end up in the top three positions.