Europa League betting and spectator preview: Midtjylland and Sporting Braga meet at MCH Arena to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
The hosts Midtjylland saw competitive action as recent as four days ago, playing in the Superliga. Thankfully the previous game, versus Brøndby, was also a home game here at MCH Arena. The away team is better rested.
It's quite the trip for Sporting Braga when visiting Midtjylland as the cities are 2700 kilometers apart.
Midtjylland form and stats
Last season their Champions League adventure ended in the 3rd qualifying round against PSV.18 points is a decent return from 8 Superliga games here at MCH Arena for Midtjylland. The data says 6 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses. 1W-2D-1L is the hard facts regardless of venue in the Europa League for Midtjylland.
The Midtjylland crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 1-2 to Brøndby here at MCH Arena in a Superliga match. Evander (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.13/10. Evander scored one goal, hit the woodwork once and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.
Heartbreak before that as Midtjylland lost 0-3 at AGF's place.This is expected to be a close game, with Midtjylland perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Midtjylland as a small favourite), we find three games. Midtjylland has won two of these, drawn one and lost zero.
Midtjylland are traveling soon after this match as the Superliga match at Vejle awaits in four days.
Goals decide football matches and Midtjylland are scoring many of them at home; 19 on target from 8 league matches. Midtjylland are not conceding a lot of goals here at MCH Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 8 matches.
Sporting Braga form and stats
Sporting Braga's mission in Europa League last season failed in the 16th finals against Roma.Playing away, Sporting Braga have won 3 games, drawn 2 and suffered 1 defeat in the Primeira Liga this season. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa League stats, they have 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss both home and away.
Wenderson Galeno, Paulo Oliveira and Vítor Oliveira (4) scored in Braga's previous match, the home game against Santa Clara that ended 6-0. As mentioned above, Sporting Braga was the only team on the pitch versus Santa Clara in their previous game, winning 6-0. This could be a tougher task. Vítor Oliveira certainly enjoyed Sporting Braga's last game versus Santa Clara, appearing multiple times in the match report with four goals and the 6-0 victory.
A 1-6 defeat away at Benfica before that.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found one similar match played by Braga in our archives, and the results are: zero wins for Sporting Braga, one draw and zero defeats.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far Sporting Braga have scored 8 goals in 6 league games away. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Braga have conceded 9 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.
Head 2 Head
The squads have faced each other already this season, with the result Sporting Braga - Midtjylland 3-1 written in the official records.Top Goalscorers
  J. dos Santos Júnior 7 goals |  E. da Silva Ferreira 5 goals |   R. Horta 5 goals |
Midtjylland missing players
Sporting Braga missing players
| Midtjylland | Sporting Braga | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 12 | Played | P | 13 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 8 | Won | W | 5 | 12 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 5 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 4 | ||
| 44 | 25 | Scored | S | 17 | 45 | ||
| 25 | 10 | Conceded | C | 14 | 26 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 77% | 80% | ||
| 80% | 83% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 62% | 72% | ||
| 52% | 58% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 38% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 23% | 36% | ||
| 12% | 17% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 23% | 24% | ||
| 44% | 58% | BTTS | BTTS | 46% | 56% | ||
| 40% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 54% | 44% | ||
| 16% | 8% | Failed to Score | F T | 23% | 20% | ||
| 5.2 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.5 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.8 | 4.5 | ||
| 1.8 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.9 | 2 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 13.5 | 14.7 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12.3 | 14.6 | ||
| 5 | 5.9 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 5.1 | ||
| 35% | 35% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 36% | ||
| 10.3 | 9.6 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.3 | 8.1 | ||
| 3.8 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 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 | Sporting Braga | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | Crvena Zvezda | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 3 | Midtjylland | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 5 |
| 4 | Ludogorets | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 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 | Midtjylland | 16 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 30 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 34 |
| 2 | København | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 31 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 19 | 30 |
| 3 | Randers | 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 28 |
| 4 | Brøndby | 16 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 24 | 20 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 4 | 27 |
| 5 | AaB | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 7 | 25 |
| 6 | Silkeborg | 16 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 25 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 10 | 24 |
| 7 | AGF | 16 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -4 | 20 |
| 8 | Viborg | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 25 | 26 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 14 | -1 | 19 |
| 9 | OB | 16 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 23 | 24 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 13 | -1 | 16 |
| 10 | Nordsjælland | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 29 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 15 | -9 | 16 |
| 11 | SønderjyskE | 15 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 9 | 29 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 16 | -20 | 9 |
| 12 | Vejle | 16 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 15 | 40 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 25 | -25 | 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 | Porto | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 21 | 29 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 13 | 29 |
| 3 | Benfica | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 27 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 20 | 28 |
| 4 | Estoril | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 20 |
| 5 | Sporting Braga | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 19 |
| 6 | Portimonense | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 17 |
| 7 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 16 |
| 8 | Gil Vicente | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 13 |
| 9 | Tondela | 11 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 17 | 21 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 12 |
| 10 | Pacos de Ferreira | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 11 |
| 11 | Boavista | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 20 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 13 | -6 | 11 |
| 12 | Famalicao | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 16 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 12 | 11 | -1 | 10 |
| 13 | Arouca | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -6 | 10 |
| 14 | Vizela | 11 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 10 | -7 | 10 |
| 15 | Moreirense | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -8 | 8 |
| 16 | Belenenses | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 8 | -8 | 8 |
| 17 | Maritimo | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -7 | 7 |
| 18 | Santa Clara | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | -16 | 6 |