Liga Portugal: Sporting Braga receive Famalicão in what could be an appealing football match. Here's a thorough preview!
- Sporting Braga have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Famalicão have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Liga Portugal
These are hectic days for the hosts, as they had a game only four days ago in the Liga Portugal. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Sporting CP.
Sporting Braga form and stats
The home supporters can't complain about results here at Estádio Municipal de Braga as Sporting Braga have scored 15 goals to get 16 points from 8 games. The overall stats in the Liga Portugal are 5-1-2 (wins-draws-losses). Sporting Braga has recorded two wins in a row here at Estádio Municipal de Braga, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
No payout for Sporting Braga in their previous match, an away game at Sporting CP that ended in defeat 0-5. The first defeat after going undefeated through five league rounds. Sporting Braga were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one. Tormena, defender, was given a rating of 7.14/10 in that game, top of the team. Tormena hit one key pass and won 5 of 6 duels.
Before that match, a win away at Pacos de Ferreira.Braga are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found 17 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 13, drew 1 and lost 3.
It should be added that a look at the 10 latest league fixtures shows that 8 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the sides scored).
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Sporting Braga, as the Taça De Portugal home game vs Benfica is only four days away.
The Sporting Braga fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 15 goals in 8 league matches. Braga are not conceding a lot of goals here at Estádio Municipal de Braga in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 5 from 8 matches.
Famalicão form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Famalicão so far with only 5 points returning home. The records show 1-2-6 (win-draw-lose).
The Famalicão goalkeeper Luiz Lucio Reis Junior is collecting clean sheets like a laundry worker. It's been 222 league minutes without conceding a goal, and counting.
Impressive finishing from Colombatto secured the home win 1-0 against Estoril in their previous game. Famalicão goalie Júnior was high and low in the Estoril game, contributing six saves towards the victory. Goalkeeper Júnior got the top player rating of the team with 8.45/10. Júnior topped it up with a clean sheet.
Ahead of that game was the 0-0 draw at home against Rio Ave.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Famalicão played away with similar odds. This revealed 4 games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 1 were draw and the home team won as expected 3 times.
A new game in only three days for Famalicão, the Taça De Portugal home match versus Belenenses. Busy days.
The attacking power of Famalicão when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 9 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Famalicão have conceded 15 goals in these games.
Head 2 Head
These competitors have played previously this season: Famalicão - Sporting Braga 0-3. As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's two Braga victories, four draws and one Famalicão win. Over/under statistics; five of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less. The games between these sides have sometimes been aggressive, having seen 6 red cards from the last seven encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  R. Horta 8 goals |  S. Banza 6 goals |  I. Picanço Medeiros 5 goals |
Sporting Braga missing players
Famalicão missing players
| Sporting Braga | Famalicão | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 6 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| 39 | 15 | 3 | Scored | S | 3 | 6 | 17 |
| 18 | 5 | 1 | Conceded | C | 8 | 15 | 23 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 78% | 83% |
| 72% | 50% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 56% | 56% |
| 61% | 38% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 67% | 33% | 44% |
| 39% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 33% | 22% |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 67% | 33% | 17% |
| 28% | 12% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 56% | 62% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 33% | 39% |
| 17% | 25% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 56% | 44% |
| 6.1 | 5.8 | 7.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| 4.5 | 3.6 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.7 | 4.7 | 5 |
| 2.6 | 2.9 | 4.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.3 | 2.9 | 2.6 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 17.4 | 19.4 | 20.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 10 | 12 | 11.6 |
| 7.1 | 6.4 | 6.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.3 | 3.4 | 3.4 |
| 31% | 29% | 16% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 19% | 27% |
| 11 | 11 | 11.7 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15 | 14.6 | 14.5 |
| 3.6 | 3.4 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 6.3 | 5 | 4.9 |
- Famalicão have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Famalicão have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Liga Portugal
- Sporting Braga have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Sporting Braga have scored more than double the goals of Famalicão.
- 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 | Benfica | 19 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 48 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 29 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 36 | 50 |
| 2 | Porto | 18 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 43 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 28 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 32 | 42 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 18 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 39 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 21 | 40 |
| 4 | Sporting CP | 18 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 38 | 19 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 5 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 19 | 35 |
| 5 | Casa Pia | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 18 | 17 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 30 |
| 6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 17 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 13 | -3 | 27 |
| 7 | Arouca | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 22 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 13 | -6 | 26 |
| 8 | Vizela | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 11 | 4 | 24 |
| 9 | Boavista | 17 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 27 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 12 | -7 | 24 |
| 10 | Chaves | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | -6 | 22 |
| 11 | Rio Ave | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 23 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 16 | -5 | 21 |
| 12 | Famalicão | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 17 | 23 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 15 | -6 | 21 |
| 13 | Portimonense | 18 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 15 | 25 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 8 | 16 | -10 | 20 |
| 14 | Estoril | 17 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 16 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 10 | -6 | 19 |
| 15 | Gil Vicente | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -8 | 18 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 23 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 15 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | -11 | 14 |
| 17 | Marítimo | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 23 | -22 | 13 |
| 18 | Pacos de Ferreira | 19 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 35 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 15 | -23 | 9 |
