Sporting Braga have traveled here for an interesting Europa League fight against Union Saint-Gilloise. Prepare for the match with this cup preview!
These teams have little in common geographically as Sporting Braga have to travel 1800 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
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.
Union Saint-Gilloise form and stats
Union Saint-Gilloise have collected 12 points from their Pro League home games so far after 4-0-1. On the other hand, in the Europa League, Union Saint-Gilloise has performed like this (both home and away): 3 wins, 0 draws and 0 losses.
A nice win for Union Saint-Gilloise last time playing, versus Cercle Brugge. That was also a home game and the match ended 2-1 with Adingra and Vanzeir scoring for the victors. Midfield player Adingra got a match rating of 8.32 in that game, the max score being 10. Adingra scored one goal, served one assist and hit three key passes.
Before that game, a fine away win at Sporting Braga. A Europa League game.
There will be little rest for Saint-Gilloise after this match as they are travelling to KV Oostende for a Pro League game in only three days.
The Union Saint-Gilloise fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 8 goals in 5 league matches.
Sporting Braga form and stats
They also participated in Europa League last season. This ended in the quarter-finals, when Rangers drew the shortest straw.3 wins, 0 draws and 1 loss. That’s the product of Sporting Braga playing as the away team in the Primeira Liga this season. When we have look at the Europa League statistics, we find 2W-0D-1L. This is both home and away.
Sporting Braga failed to get anything from their last game, a home match vs Chaves that ended with defeat 0-1. Midfield player Horta was the top player of the team with a match rating of 8.03/10. Horta hit seven key passes and had 62 successful passes (of 66 total).
The fixture before that was the Europa League-battle against Union Saint-Gilloise, a home loss (1-2).
There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Braga manager Jorge as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Felgueiras 1932.
Sporting Braga are scoring goals for fun in their league games away this season, having clocked up more than three goals per game on average (13 goals from 4 away games). Sporting Braga struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 6 goals conceded from these games.
Head 2 Head
The two combatants have met earlier this season: Sporting Braga - Saint-Gilloise 1-2. One of the stars has been Nilsson with 2 goals scored against Sporting Braga in these 1 meetings.
Top Goalscorers
  S. Banza 5 goals |   S. Adingra 4 goals |  R. Horta 4 goals |
Union Saint-Gilloise missing players
Sporting Braga missing players
| Union Saint-Gilloise | Sporting Braga | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 9 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 15 | 6 | Won | W | 6 | 17 | ||
| 4 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 6 | 2 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 40 | 15 | Scored | S | 20 | 46 | ||
| 27 | 10 | Conceded | C | 14 | 24 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 96% | ||
| 76% | 78% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 64% | ||
| 60% | 67% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 52% | ||
| 24% | 22% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 45% | 32% | ||
| 8% | 11% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 36% | 28% | ||
| 52% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 36% | 36% | ||
| 32% | 22% | Clean Sheets | C S | 55% | 56% | ||
| 20% | 11% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 12% | ||
| 4.1 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.3 | ||
| 4.5 | 4.4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 4.7 | ||
| 2.1 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.4 | ||
| 4 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 3 | 3 | ||
| 12.2 | 13.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 15.3 | 15.6 | ||
| 4.2 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 5.9 | ||
| 33% | 32% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | ||
| 9.1 | 8.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.2 | 13.2 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.6 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.9 | 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 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 2 | Sporting Braga | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | FC Union Berlin | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 3 |
| 4 | Malmö FF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -4 | 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 | Antwerp | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 30 |
| 2 | Genk | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 15 | 28 |
| 3 | Club Brugge | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 22 |
| 4 | Union Saint-Gilloise | 11 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 19 | 15 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 22 |
| 5 | OH Leuven | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 20 |
| 6 | Standard Liege | 11 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 19 |
| 7 | Westerlo | 11 | 6 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 18 |
| 8 | Gent | 11 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 17 |
| 9 | Anderlecht | 11 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 16 |
| 10 | Sporting Charleroi | 11 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 5 | -1 | 15 |
| 11 | Sint-Truiden | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 3 | -1 | 13 |
| 12 | Mechelen | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 21 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -4 | 11 |
| 13 | KV Oostende | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -4 | 11 |
| 14 | RFC Seraing | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 10 | -8 | 10 |
| 15 | Kortrijk | 11 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 18 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -9 | 10 |
| 16 | Cercle Brugge | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 15 | -10 | 9 |
| 17 | AS Eupen | 11 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 9 | 20 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 8 | -11 | 9 |
| 18 | Zulte-Waregem | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | -16 | 5 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Benfica | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 23 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 18 | 25 |
| 2 | Porto | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 22 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 6 | 14 | 19 |
| 4 | Casa Pia | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 17 |
| 5 | Sporting CP | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 16 |
| 6 | Boavista | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -4 | 16 |
| 7 | Estoril | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 15 |
| 8 | Portimonense | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -1 | 15 |
| 9 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 10 | Chaves | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -1 | 12 |
| 11 | Vizela | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 11 |
| 12 | Rio Ave | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 12 | -4 | 9 |
| 13 | Gil Vicente | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 9 |
| 14 | Arouca | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | -9 | 9 |
| 15 | Famalicao | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | -3 | 7 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 5 |
| 17 | Pacos de Ferreira | 9 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | -11 | 2 |
| 18 | Maritimo | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 18 | -19 | 1 |
