Get ready for the return leg of the Europa League Quarter-finals between Rangers and Sporting Braga. This should be an interesting match and this preview contains everything you need to know. Read on!
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 2600 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Rangers form and stats
Rangers was eliminated in the 8th finals last season in the Europa League. Slavia Praha was too strong.On the other hand, in the Europa League, Rangers has performed like this (both home and away): 5 wins, 4 draws and 4 losses.
Happy days for Rangers in their previous game, a fixture away at St. Mirren that ended with a 4-0 victory. As mentioned above, Rangers "killed" St. Mirren in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. Roofe was absolutely essential when Rangers beat St. Mirren 4-0, scoring three goals. The attacking player Roofe was announced as "man of the match" for Rangers with a rating of 9.8/10. Roofe scored three goals, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Rangers as they are travelling to their away game against Celtic in the Scottish Cup. That match is three days after this one.
Sporting Braga form and stats
Sporting Braga was sent out of Europa League in the 16th finals last season, when Roma turned out to be too strong.The story so far for the visiting team on their Primeira Liga travels is 8 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. The mentioned statistics is only from the league, looking at the Europa League stats, they have 6 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses both home and away.
Braga play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Vizela. The attacker Horta got a match rating of 7.84 in that game. Horta served one assist, hit four key passes and had 36 successful passes (of 41 total).
The visitors will be packing their bags again in only four days as another away game awaits: The Primeira Liga trip to Estoril.
Sporting Braga are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 22 times in 14 away games so far. 15 goals have been conceded by Sporting Braga in these games.
Head 2 Head
The participants have met each other previously this season, with the final score Sporting Braga - Rangers 1-0 logged in the official records. As for the last three games between these two teams, there's two Rangers victories, zero draws and one Sporting Braga win. Over/under statistics; one of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.Top Goalscorers
R. Horta 15 goals | A. Morelos Aviléz 12 goals | K. Roofe 10 goals |
Rangers missing players
Sporting Braga missing players
Rangers | Sporting Braga | ||||||
Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
25 | 12 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
16 | 9 | Won | W | 5 | 13 | ||
5 | 2 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | ||
4 | 1 | Lost | L | 5 | 7 | ||
51 | 26 | Scored | S | 16 | 34 | ||
20 | 6 | Conceded | C | 15 | 23 | ||
100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
80% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 64% | ||
56% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 32% | ||
28% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
12% | 8% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 17% | 12% | ||
36% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | ||
56% | 75% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 40% | ||
8% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 24% | ||
6.2 | 7.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.6 | 5.5 | ||
4.4 | 3.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.2 | 4.6 | ||
1.5 | 1.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.4 | ||
1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 6 | ||
18 | 20.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10.4 | 13.3 | ||
6.2 | 7.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 4 | ||
33% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 37% | 34% | ||
8.8 | 7.8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.2 | 10.9 | ||
3.5 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.6 | 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 | Porto | 29 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 72 | 19 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 37 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 10 | 53 | 79 |
2 | Sporting CP | 29 | 23 | 4 | 2 | 59 | 18 | 14 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 5 | 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 33 | 13 | 41 | 73 |
3 | Benfica | 29 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 73 | 29 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 15 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 37 | 14 | 44 | 64 |
4 | Sporting Braga | 29 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 47 | 28 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 25 | 13 | 14 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 22 | 15 | 19 | 55 |
5 | Gil Vicente | 29 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 40 | 30 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 21 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 10 | 46 |
6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 29 | 11 | 6 | 12 | 38 | 38 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 24 | 19 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 0 | 39 |
7 | Pacos de Ferreira | 29 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 27 | 34 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 15 | -7 | 36 |
8 | Estoril | 29 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 32 | 36 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 17 | -4 | 34 |
9 | Santa Clara | 29 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 32 | 46 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 21 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 25 | -14 | 34 |
10 | Boavista | 29 | 6 | 15 | 8 | 34 | 41 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | 25 | -7 | 33 |
11 | Maritimo | 29 | 8 | 9 | 12 | 32 | 39 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 24 | -7 | 33 |
12 | Portimonense | 29 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 27 | 34 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 19 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 15 | -7 | 32 |
13 | Vizela | 29 | 6 | 11 | 12 | 31 | 47 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 13 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 18 | 28 | -16 | 29 |
14 | Famalicao | 29 | 6 | 10 | 13 | 34 | 44 | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 14 | 16 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 20 | 28 | -10 | 28 |
15 | Arouca | 29 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 27 | 50 | 14 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 28 | 15 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 22 | -23 | 26 |
16 | Tondela | 29 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 37 | 58 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 21 | 30 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 28 | -21 | 25 |
17 | Moreirense | 29 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 26 | 46 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 20 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 26 | -20 | 23 |
18 | Belenenses | 29 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 18 | 49 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 26 | 15 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 23 | -31 | 21 |