It's game one of two in the Champions League as Sporting Braga host Panathinaikos. This is a Play-offs fixture played over two legs and nothing will be decided tonight.
These teams have little in common geographically as Panathinaikos have to travel 3600 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
The hosts Braga saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Liga Portugal. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Chaves.
Sporting Braga form and stats
Sporting Braga have not come this way in the Champions League without some hard work on the way, more precisely defeating Backa Topola. Sporting Braga was eliminated in the group stage last season in the Europa League.When playing at home in the Liga Portugal, Sporting Braga have managed 0 wins, 0 draws and suffered 1 defeat from 1 games.
Happy days for Braga in their previous game, a fixture away at Chaves that ended with a 4-2 victory. A goal frenzy last time out for Sporting Braga, with a total of 6 goals in the match against Chaves. Fun stuff to watch! Midfielder Horta was the best player on the team with a rating of 8.05 (out of ten) in that game. Horta scored one goal, served one assist, hit three key passes and had 36 successful passes (of 44 total).
Before that, a fine away victory at Backa Topola. A Champions League match.
It's still early days, but we have some goal stats for the Sporting Braga at home in the league. 1 on target and 2 scored by the opposition; from 1 match.
Panathinaikos form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Olympique Marseille and Dnipro-1 in order to reach play-offs of Champions League.Total Champions League statistics for Panathinaikos: 2 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss.
Two away games in a row for Panathinaikos, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 1-2 against Olympique Marseille in the Champions League.
Before that match, the win at home against Olympique Marseille in the Champions League (1-0).
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  R. Horta 2 goals |  L. Fernandes 1 goals |  S. Banza 1 goals |
Sporting Braga missing players
Panathinaikos missing players
| Sporting Braga | Panathinaikos | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 10 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 11 | Won | W | 6 | 14 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 8 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | ||
| 57 | 34 | Scored | S | 12 | 36 | ||
| 20 | 11 | Conceded | C | 5 | 13 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 80% | 84% | ||
| 80% | 80% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 50% | 64% | ||
| 56% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 30% | 28% | ||
| 36% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 10% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | ||
| 44% | 33% | BTTS | BTTS | 30% | 36% | ||
| 48% | 60% | Clean Sheets | C S | 60% | 56% | ||
| 12% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 30% | 24% | ||
| 4.6 | 5.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.1 | 4.7 | ||
| 4.1 | 4.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 3.3 | ||
| 2 | 1.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 1.8 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 13.6 | 13.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.6 | 10.9 | ||
| 5.5 | 5.4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 3.4 | ||
| 42% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 38% | 43% | ||
| 9.8 | 8.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.5 | 8.1 | ||
| 3.1 | 2.8 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.2 | 2.4 | ||
| 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 | Sporting CP | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | Gil Vicente | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 3 |
| 5 | Casa Pia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 6 | Rio Ave | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | Sporting Braga | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 8 | Arouca | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 9 | Benfica | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | Famalicao | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 11 | Porto | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Estoril | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 0 |
| 13 | Vizela | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 0 |
| 14 | Moreirense | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1 | 0 |
| 15 | Farense | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 0 |
| 16 | Estrela Amadora | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -3 | 0 |
| 17 | Chaves | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -4 | 0 |
| 18 | Portimonense | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | -8 | 0 |
