Playing at home is relaxed and nice for Estrela Amadora, but Sporting Braga are fully determined and able to win. How will it end?
- Estrela Amadora have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Sporting Braga have scored more than double the goals of Estrela Amadora.
It's no vacation for neither Estrela Amadora nor Sporting Braga as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.
Estrela Amadora form and stats
Three Liga Portugal home games done for Estrela Amadora, who are not happy collecting 3 points from these matches.
An away draw last time out for Estrela, facing Chaves in a game that ended 2-2. A disappointing finish for Estrela Amadora in their match versus Chaves as their 2-0 lead was destroyed and replaced with a 2-2 full time score. The gifted forward Jabá outshone all the other footballers in that game and got a match rating of 8.51 out of 10. Jabá scored one goal, served one assist and hit two key passes.
Preceding that match was the home game against Porto that was lost 0-1.Estrela Amadora have scored {2 league goals} here from 3 matches, not a lot.
Sporting Braga form and stats
It's gone fairly well in the Liga Portugal away games so far for Sporting Braga with six points collected from three matches.
Braga had fun at their own home (Estádio José Gomes) last time out, beating Boavista 4-1. Horta (2), Banza and Musrati scored. Musrati got a match rating of 8.74 in that game, top player of the team. Musrati scored one goal, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 75 successful passes (of 84 total).
The match before that was the Champions League-battle against Napoli, a home defeat (1-2).
Will both teams score? This side's fresh fixtures suggest that, having played 6 league matches in a row with one or more goals from each team.
Today's guests are confident travelers having scored 8 goals in 3 league games away this season. The Sporting Braga manager Jorge has some worries about the defense as 7 goals have been conceded in these travels.
Head 2 Head
As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's one Estrela Amadora victory, six draws and three Sporting Braga wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.
Top Goalscorers
  S. Banza 4 goals |  R. Horta 4 goals |   L. Cordeiro de Lima Silva 2 goals |
Estrela Amadora missing players
Sporting Braga missing players
| Estrela Amadora | Sporting Braga | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 5 | 2 | 0 | Scored | S | 4 | 8 | 14 |
| 8 | 3 | 1 | Conceded | C | 2 | 7 | 11 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 67% | 33% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 33% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 83% |
| 17% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 100% | 67% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 100% | 67% | 50% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 50% | 67% | 100% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 6.2 | 7 | 10 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6 | 5 | 4.7 |
| 7.5 | 8 | 6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5 | 5.3 | 4 |
| 3.2 | 2.3 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 3 | 2.8 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9.3 | 9.7 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16 | 15 | 15.3 |
| 1.8 | 2 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 5.3 | 5.3 |
| 45% | 33% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 57% | 50% | 44% |
| 15.5 | 10 | 8 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 16 | 14.7 | 11.8 |
| 5.2 | 3.7 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.3 | 3.5 |
- All of Sporting Braga's away-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
- Estrela Amadora have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Estrela Amadora haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Sporting Braga have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Sporting Braga have scored in all their matches so far.
- Sporting Braga have scored more than double the goals of Estrela Amadora.
- Sporting Braga haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| 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 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 16 |
| 2 | Benfica | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 15 |
| 3 | Sporting CP | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 13 |
| 4 | Boavista | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 13 |
| 5 | Famalicao | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 6 | Sporting Braga | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 10 |
| 7 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | -1 | 10 |
| 8 | Casa Pia | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 9 | Moreirense | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -3 | 7 |
| 10 | Gil Vicente | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 6 |
| 11 | Farense | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 6 |
| 12 | Arouca | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 6 |
| 13 | Rio Ave | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 5 |
| 14 | Vizela | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -3 | 5 |
| 15 | Estrela Amadora | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | -3 | 5 |
| 16 | Portimonense | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | -9 | 5 |
| 17 | Estoril | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 4 |
| 18 | Chaves | 6 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 11 | -13 | 1 |
