Santa Clara will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 12 points behind Sporting Braga.
- Santa Clara has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Primeira Liga
- Sporting Braga have scored at least twice as many goals away as Santa Clara have scored home.
The visiting Sporting Braga played their last game only four days ago, a Taça De Portugal match.
Santa Clara form and stats
Santa Clara's results here in the Primeira Liga have been very modest with 2 victories, 2 draws and 4 defeats.
It's back home for Santa, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Maritimo away with the result 2-1. Carlos Junior and Crysan found the net in that victory. Before that, Santa played out a draw 1-1 when visiting Farense.
Santa aren't scoring a lot here in the league, with only 7 goals from 8 games. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Santa Clara's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Sporting Braga form and stats
As the visiting team in Primeira Liga matches, Sporting Braga have produced an overall stat of 5-0-4 so far.
Sporting Braga's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Porto that finished 1-1. A 2-2 draw was the result before that, hosting Porto in the Primeira Liga.
A quick return to home after this game, as Braga are hosting Roma in the Europa League only four days away.
The Braga manager C. Soares da Costa Faria Carvalhal has got the team scoring on the road, with 18 away goals in 9 league matches. As opposed to that, Braga have seen the ball go into their own net 12 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Sporting Braga - Santa 0-1. Head-2-head stats last eight meetings: two - one - five (Santa Clara wins - draws - Sporting Braga wins). As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  C. Carvalho da Silva Junior 6 goals |   R. Horta 6 goals |  I. Picanço Medeiros 5 goals |
Santa Clara missing players
Sporting Braga missing players
| Santa Clara | Sporting Braga | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 8 | 4 | Played | P | 3 | 9 | 18 |
| 7 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 5 | 12 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 4 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 20 | 7 | 2 | Scored | S | 9 | 18 | 32 |
| 21 | 10 | 8 | Conceded | C | 2 | 12 | 18 |
| 94% | 88% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 78% | 75% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 89% | 72% |
| 44% | 38% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 67% | 61% |
| 11% | 12% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 67% | 56% | 33% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 22% | 11% |
| 56% | 38% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 44% | 44% |
| 22% | 38% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 33% | 39% |
| 28% | 38% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 22% | 17% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.9 | 2.5 | 2.2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 0.7 | 2 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 4 | 4 |
| 10.6 | 9.8 | 8.8 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 16 | 12.6 | 14.7 |
| 3.4 | 2.8 | 2.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 7 | 5.4 | 5.2 |
| 33% | 32% | 20% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 43% | 37% | 34% |
- Santa Clara has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Primeira Liga
- Sporting Braga have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sporting Braga have scored at least twice as many goals away as Santa Clara have scored home.
- 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 | Sporting CP | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 10 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 5 | 28 | 48 |
| 2 | Porto | 18 | 12 | 4 | 2 | 41 | 19 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 10 | 22 | 40 |
| 3 | Benfica | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 16 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 16 | 37 |
| 4 | Sporting Braga | 18 | 12 | 1 | 5 | 32 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 14 | 37 |
| 5 | Pacos de Ferreira | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 26 | 14 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 35 |
| 6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 17 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 14 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 31 |
| 7 | Santa Clara | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 20 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 11 | -1 | 25 |
| 8 | Moreirense | 18 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 22 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | -5 | 24 |
| 9 | Nacional | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 16 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 21 |
| 10 | Rio Ave | 18 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 13 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -8 | 19 |
| 11 | Tondela | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 17 | 29 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 21 | -12 | 18 |
| 12 | Belenenses | 18 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 6 | -6 | 17 |
| 13 | Maritimo | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 17 | 26 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 14 | -9 | 17 |
| 14 | Gil Vicente | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -8 | 16 |
| 15 | Portimonense | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 16 | -9 | 16 |
| 16 | Boavista | 18 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 17 | 30 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 14 | -13 | 14 |
| 17 | Famalicao | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 17 | 32 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 13 | -15 | 14 |
| 18 | Farense | 17 | 3 | 4 | 10 | 17 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 12 | -8 | 13 |