The first leg ended Sporting Braga-Panathinaikos 2-1. All is set for the decider in this Champions League Play-offs fixture!
It's quite the trip for Sporting Braga when visiting Panathinaikos as the cities are 3600 kilometers apart.
Panathinaikos have less rest than Sporting Braga in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Super League game only three days ago. This match was also played here at Stadio Apóstolos Nikolaidis. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Sporting Braga have had more rest.
Panathinaikos form and stats
Panathinaikos have not come this way in the Champions League without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Olympique Marseille and Dnipro-1.Panathinaikos have collected 3 points from their Super League home games so far after 1-0-0. This match is a Champions League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 losses in this competition.
The Panathinaikos fans enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Volos NFC and win 3-0. Kotsiras, defender, was given a rating of 8.43/10 in that game, top of the team. Kotsiras served one assist, hit one key pass and won 8 of 14 duels.
Before that match, a loss in the away fixture against Sporting Braga in the Champions League. The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Panathinaikos have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 7 matches with the results: Won 4, drawn 2 and lost 1.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Panathinaikos as they are travelling to their away game against PAS Giannina in the Super League. That match is three days after this one.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Panathinaikos at home in the league. 3 on target and 0 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Sporting Braga form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Backa Topola in order to reach play-offs of Champions League. Sporting Braga was sent out of Europa League in the group stage last season.Playing away, Sporting Braga have won 1 game, drawn 0 and suffered 0 defeats in the Liga Portugal this season. When we have look at the Champions League statistics, we find 3W-0D-0L. This is both home and away.
The followers enjoyed Braga's previous game versus Panathinaikos, a Champions League win (2-1) played at home. Midfielder Horta was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 8.42. Horta signed up for two assists, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 26 successful passes (of 29 total).
Before that one, a nice away victory 4-2 at Chaves.{4 goals} so far away for Sporting Braga, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 2. All from 1 league match away.
Head 2 Head
This was the final score when the participants met previously this season; Sporting Braga - Panathinaikos 2-1.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Horta 2 goals |   F. Ioannidis 1 goals | A. Čerin 1 goals |
Panathinaikos missing players
Sporting Braga missing players
| Panathinaikos | Sporting Braga | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 9 | 25 | ||
| 14 | 8 | Won | W | 6 | 18 | ||
| 7 | 6 | Drew | D | 2 | 4 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 3 | ||
| 38 | 25 | Scored | S | 22 | 58 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Conceded | C | 7 | 19 | ||
| 88% | 87% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 68% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 78% | 80% | ||
| 36% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 56% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 44% | 36% | ||
| 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 24% | ||
| 40% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 56% | 44% | ||
| 52% | 53% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 11% | 12% | ||
| 4.4 | 4.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 3.4 | 4.6 | ||
| 3.3 | 1.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 4 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 1.9 | ||
| 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 10.2 | 10.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.4 | 13.7 | ||
| 3.4 | 3.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.8 | 5.5 | ||
| 45% | 48% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 42% | ||
| 8.3 | 5.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.2 | 9.7 | ||
| 2.4 | 1.9 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.7 | 3.1 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | PAS Giannina | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 2 | Panathinaikos | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 3 | PAOK | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 4 | Olympiakos Piraeus | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 5 | Asteras Tripolis | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 6 | OFI | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -2 | 3 |
| 7 | Lamia | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | AEK Athens | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 9 | Panaitolikos | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Panserraikos | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
| 11 | Volos NFC | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 1 |
| 12 | Atromitos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | Aris | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Kifisia | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 0 |
| 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 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | Benfica | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Sporting CP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Porto | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 6 | Arouca | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 7 | Famalicao | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 8 | Gil Vicente | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 9 | Casa Pia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 10 | Farense | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Sporting Braga | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Estoril | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 |
| 13 | Rio Ave | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 14 | Estrela Amadora | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 3 |
| 15 | Vizela | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 1 |
| 16 | Moreirense | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 1 |
| 17 | Portimonense | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | -8 | 1 |
| 18 | Chaves | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | -9 | 0 |
