Football betting preview: Sporting Braga the probable winner when Gil Vicente comes to visit

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Competition: Portugal Liga Portugal
Competition: Sun 16.April
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Cidade Desportiva SC Braga (28800 seats)

Welcome to Cidade Desportiva SC Braga and this fixture starring Sporting Braga and Gil Vicente in the Liga Portugal. Tipsway has everything you must know!

Insights:
  • Sporting Braga have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Liga Portugal
  • Gil Vicente have the most points from losing position (14) in Liga Portugal

Sporting Braga have less rest than Gil Vicente in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Taça De Portugal game only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Nacional.

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Sporting Braga form and stats

29 points is a decent return from 13 Liga Portugal games here at Cidade Desportiva SC Braga for Sporting Braga. The data says 9 wins, 2 draws and 2 losses.

Sporting Braga are returning here after visiting Nacional in a Taça De Portugal match and winning with a 5-0 scoreline. Banza, a natural forward, was the top performer for the team in that game, and was presented with a rating of 10.0 (out of 10). Banza scored two goals, signed up for two assists, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.

Previous to that game, a Liga Portugal home match hosting Estoril in a game that was won 4-1.

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 16 matches and the win/draw/lost stats: Won 12, drew 1 and lost 3.

Sporting Braga can score goals in their home matches. After 13 league matches they have found the net 27 times. Braga have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Gil Vicente form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Gil Vicente so far with only 13 points returning home. The records show 4-1-8 (win-draw-lose). The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Gil Vicente have lost on their last two travels.

The attacking players of Gil Vicente have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 299 minutes. Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Gil Vicente goalkeeper Andrew da Silva Ventura is eager to challenge this, with his 269 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Vicente's last game was the home draw against Chaves (0-0). Marín, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 8.45. Marín hit two key passes and won 8 of 9 duels.

A draw for Gil Vicente before that, at their own venue hosting Sporting CP (0-0).

Gil Vicente are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 15 away goals from 13 games (in the league). Vicente struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 21 goals conceded from these games. Gil Vicente has visited these top teams four times, and 3 of 4 has ended with 2 goals or more!

Head 2 Head

The squads have met each other before in this season, with the match result Gil Vicente - Sporting Braga 0-1 entered in the official records. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sporting Braga six wins, three draws and Gil Vicente one victory. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), nine games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

Gil VicenteF. Navarro
F. Navarro
13 goals
BragaS. Banza
S. Banza
10 goals
Sporting BragaR. Horta
R. Horta
9 goals

Sporting Braga missing players

Gil Vicente missing players

Sporting Braga Gil Vicente
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
27 13 2 Played P 4 13 27
20 9 2 Won W 1 4 8
2 2 0 Drew D 0 1 7
5 2 0 Lost L 3 8 12
60 27 9 Scored S 4 15 26
24 7 1 Conceded C 8 21 32
96% 92% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
78% 62% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 69% 59%
63% 38% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 69% 44%
37% 31% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 38% 22%
30% 31% 100% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
37% 23% 50% BTTS BTTS 75% 69% 52%
52% 62% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 8% 26%
15% 23% 0% Failed to Score F T 25% 23% 33%
 
5.9 5.9 6 Corners for (avg) C F 1.5 5.5 6.4
4.3 3.5 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 4 5.5 5
2.6 2.6 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.5 2.4
6 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
16.4 17.7 18.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7.8 12.6 13
6.6 6.2 8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.2 3.8 4.2
34% 34% 56% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 30% 23%
 
11 10.1 7 Shots against (avg) S A 12 14.9 14.3
3.4 3.1 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.6 5.1
Key stats in Liga Portugal this season:
  • Gil Vicente have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Gil Vicente have the most points from losing position (14) in Liga Portugal
  • Gil Vicente haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Sporting Braga have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Sporting Braga have scored more than double the goals of Gil Vicente.
  • Sporting Braga have the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Liga Portugal

  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 27 23 2 2 68 16 14 12 1 1 43 12 13 11 1 1 25 4 52 71
2 Porto 27 20 4 3 58 18 13 11 0 2 36 9 14 9 4 1 22 9 40 64
3 Sporting Braga 27 20 2 5 60 24 13 9 2 2 27 7 14 11 0 3 33 17 36 62
4 Sporting CP 27 18 3 6 56 26 13 11 0 2 35 7 14 7 3 4 21 19 30 57
5 Arouca 27 12 8 7 31 32 14 8 2 4 20 16 13 4 6 3 11 16 -1 44
6 Vitoria Guimaraes 27 12 5 10 26 31 14 8 3 3 14 10 13 4 2 7 12 21 -5 41
7 Vizela 27 11 5 11 31 28 13 5 2 6 15 14 14 6 3 5 16 14 3 38
8 Casa Pia 27 11 5 11 26 31 14 6 3 5 15 13 13 5 2 6 11 18 -5 38
9 Famalicao 27 11 3 13 28 34 13 7 1 5 13 10 14 4 2 8 15 24 -6 36
10 Rio Ave 27 9 7 11 27 31 13 7 1 5 14 10 14 2 6 6 13 21 -4 34
11 Chaves 27 8 9 10 27 33 13 3 5 5 15 17 14 5 4 5 12 16 -6 33
12 Boavista 27 9 6 12 32 45 14 6 5 3 18 18 13 3 1 9 14 27 -13 33
13 Gil Vicente 27 8 7 12 26 32 14 4 6 4 11 11 13 4 1 8 15 21 -6 31
14 Portimonense 27 8 3 16 20 35 14 5 3 6 12 14 13 3 0 10 8 21 -15 27
15 Estoril 27 7 4 16 23 43 13 4 2 7 12 22 14 3 2 9 11 21 -20 25
16 Maritimo 27 5 4 18 21 50 13 4 2 7 14 18 14 1 2 11 7 32 -29 19
17 Pacos de Ferreira 27 4 5 18 20 46 14 2 2 10 10 26 13 2 3 8 10 20 -26 17
18 Santa Clara 27 3 6 18 17 42 14 2 4 8 13 26 13 1 2 10 4 16 -25 15

Read more about Liga Portugal

The Primeira Liga, also known as Liga NOS, is the top level of football in Portugal. It has 18 teams each playing 34 fixtures to decide the final league table. Portuguese football is dominated by “The Big Three”: Benfica, Porto and Sporting CP (Lisbon). These three clubs generally end up in the top three positions.