It's time for episode two of the Rangers - Sporting Braga Quarter-finals battle

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Competition: Europe Europa League
Competition: Thu 14.April
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Ibrox Stadium (50817 seats)

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.

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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.

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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

Sporting BragaR. Horta
R. Horta
15 goals
RangersA. Morelos Aviléz
A. Morelos Aviléz
12 goals
RangersK. Roofe
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

Read more about Europa League

The UEFA Europa League, abbreviated as UEL and commonly referred to as just the Europa League, is an annual football club competition organised by UEFA. It is the second-tier competition for football clubs in Europa, beneath the UEFA Champions League in value and importance. Teams qualify through their performance in their national leagues and cup competitions. Some teams qualify from the Champions League; more precisely the teams who are knocked out in the playoff qualifying round and the third-place finishers of the group stage. The winner of the Europa League qualifies for the Champions League in their next competitive season.