Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Sporting CP & Sporting Braga face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the League Cup. All the pre-match information is available here!
This has all the signs of an exciting game with lots of fun and bustle as both squads are well recovered since they last saw competitive action. Get ready!
Sporting CP form and stats
Sporting CP have been outstanding at home so far in the Liga Portugal with 5 wins, 0 draws and only 1 loss.
Sporting CP's previous fixture was a League Cup game also played at home, finishing 5-0 versus Marítimo. The home side hope to to continue in that form.
Before that game, a fine away victory at Rio Ave. A League Cup game.
Goals are plentiful at Estádio José Alvalade in the league this season as Sporting CP has scored 16 goals here in 6 home games. Sporting CP are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio José Alvalade in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 4 from 6 matches.
Sporting Braga form and stats
They also participated in League Cup last season. This ended in the group stage.Rock solid. That's the only way to describe the travels of Sporting Braga so far, with 6-0-1 (wins-draws-losses) so far. Those are Liga Portugal statistics.
The club members enjoyed Braga's previous game versus Pacos de Ferreira, a League Cup win (2-0) played at home.
Ahead of that, the League Cup victory away at Casa Pia.
Sporting Braga create on average more than 2,5 goals per away game (in the league) all by themselves, having scored 18 goals in 7 travels.
Head 2 Head
Last ten meetings between these participants: Sporting CP won six, Sporting Braga were winners in three and we saw one draw. six games with over 2,5 goals, four matches with under 2,5 goals. The games between these teams have sometimes been aggressive, having seen 9 red cards from the last ten encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  Pote 7 goals |  M. Edwards 5 goals |   V. Carvalho Oliveira 5 goals |
Sporting CP missing players
Sporting Braga missing players
| Sporting CP | Sporting Braga | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 8 | Won | W | 9 | 18 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | ||
| 8 | 3 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 49 | 32 | Scored | S | 26 | 50 | ||
| 27 | 10 | Conceded | C | 12 | 22 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | ||
| 92% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 72% | ||
| 60% | 62% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 56% | ||
| 28% | 38% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 24% | ||
| 44% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 42% | 40% | ||
| 36% | 46% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 8% | 12% | ||
| 6.2 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.8 | ||
| 3.6 | 3.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.1 | 3.7 | ||
| 2.9 | 2.5 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.6 | ||
| 4 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 4 | 4 | ||
| 14.3 | 14.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.6 | 16.7 | ||
| 5.4 | 5.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.6 | 6.2 | ||
| 36% | 42% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | ||
| 9 | 7.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.8 | 10.8 | ||
| 3.3 | 2.5 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.3 | 3.5 | ||
| 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 | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 37 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 30 | 37 |
| 2 | Porto | 13 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 31 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 22 | 29 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 13 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 7 | 17 | 28 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 26 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 25 |
| 5 | Casa Pia | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 23 |
| 6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 23 |
| 7 | Portimonense | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -2 | 19 |
| 8 | Chaves | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 16 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 19 |
| 9 | Arouca | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 19 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | -5 | 19 |
| 10 | Rio Ave | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 18 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 13 | -2 | 18 |
| 11 | Boavista | 13 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 23 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -9 | 17 |
| 12 | Estoril | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | -4 | 16 |
| 13 | Vizela | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 7 | -2 | 15 |
| 14 | Santa Clara | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 | -2 | 13 |
| 15 | Famalicao | 13 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 11 | 18 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 11 | -7 | 11 |
| 16 | Gil Vicente | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 21 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 13 | -10 | 9 |
| 17 | Marítimo | 13 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 27 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 19 | -19 | 6 |
| 18 | Pacos de Ferreira | 13 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 26 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 14 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 12 | -19 | 2 |
