Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Sporting Braga & Vitória SC face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Taça De Portugal. All the pre-match information is available here!
The visiting Vitória SC played their last game only four days ago, a Liga Portugal match.
Sporting Braga form and stats
Sporting Braga was eliminated in the round of 16 last season in the Taça De Portugal.The story so far in the Liga Portugal for Sporting Braga at their home stadium (Estádio Municipal de Braga) is 4 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
The Sporting Braga goalkeeper Tiago Magalhaes Sa is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 230 minutes without conceding a goal in the Liga Portugal.
Sporting Braga enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Santa Clara's place. The match ended 4-0 with Horta, Horta (2) and Medeiros scoring. As mentioned above, Braga "killed" Santa Clara in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. Sporting Braga's victory against Santa Clara could easily have been with a bigger margin than 4-0 as they hit the posts three times. Midfield player Horta got a match rating of 9.14 in that game, the max score being 10. Horta scored two goals, served one assist, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 43 successful passes (of 47 total).
Ahead of that match, Braga won a home game hosting Benfica (3-0).Another home game is coming up fairly shortly for the hosts, as Boavista are coming to town in three days.
Sporting Braga have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Vitória SC form and stats
Vitória SC was sent out of Taça De Portugal in the 4th round last season.There's been little loot from Vitória SC's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 7 away games in the Liga Portugal. Vitória SC only have 2 wins to counter their 4 defeats and 1 draw.
Vitória aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 200 league minutes without a goal. Silva was the last player to find the net.
Vitória SC's last game was the home draw against Rio Ave (0-0). Defender Villanueva was the best team player with a rating of 7.61. Villanueva hit one key pass and won 4 of 6 duels.
A 0-3 defeat away at Vizela before that.The visitors have scored 5 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As for defending, Vitória SC rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 11 goals from these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Sporting Braga-Vitória SC H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Braga seven wins, Vitória SC one win, two draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  R. Horta 8 goals |  I. Picanço Medeiros 5 goals | V. Carvalho Oliveira 5 goals |
Sporting Braga missing players
Vitória SC missing players
| Sporting Braga | Vitória SC | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 18 | 9 | Won | W | 3 | 11 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 4 | 7 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Lost | L | 6 | 7 | ||
| 49 | 22 | Scored | S | 10 | 27 | ||
| 23 | 6 | Conceded | C | 17 | 25 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 72% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 54% | 48% | ||
| 56% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 54% | 48% | ||
| 28% | 8% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 24% | ||
| 24% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | ||
| 32% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 38% | 36% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Clean Sheets | C S | 38% | 48% | ||
| 16% | 17% | Failed to Score | F T | 46% | 36% | ||
| 5.8 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.8 | 4.9 | ||
| 3.7 | 2.8 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.6 | ||
| 2.6 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.4 | 3.6 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 5 | 5 | ||
| 16.2 | 18.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.8 | 12.3 | ||
| 6 | 5.7 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 4.2 | ||
| 33% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 21% | 26% | ||
| 10.9 | 11.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 13.1 | 10.6 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.8 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Benfica | 15 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 28 | 40 |
| 2 | Sporting Braga | 15 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 36 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 24 | 34 |
| 3 | Porto | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 26 | 33 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 14 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 28 |
| 5 | Casa Pia | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 27 |
| 6 | Vitória SC | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -2 | 24 |
| 7 | Arouca | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 17 | 24 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | -7 | 22 |
| 8 | Rio Ave | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -2 | 20 |
| 9 | Portimonense | 15 | 6 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | -4 | 19 |
| 10 | Chaves | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -5 | 19 |
| 11 | Vizela | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 18 |
| 12 | Famalicao | 15 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 15 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | -4 | 17 |
| 13 | Boavista | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -9 | 17 |
| 14 | Estoril | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 8 | -6 | 16 |
| 15 | Santa Clara | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 6 | -7 | 13 |
| 16 | Gil Vicente | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -9 | 12 |
| 17 | Maritimo | 14 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 28 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 20 | -19 | 7 |
| 18 | Pacos de Ferreira | 14 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 15 | -22 | 2 |
