It's advantage Sporting Braga so far with their 3rd position in the Primeira Liga table, welcoming Gil Vicente who are placed 12th.
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
Sporting Braga form and stats
The story so far in the Primeira Liga for Sporting Braga at their home stadium (Estádio Municipal de Braga) is 5 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Sporting Braga has won five games in a row. The Paços de Ferreira match was the last time out without a victory. Sporting Braga has recorded two wins in a row here at Estádio Municipal de Braga, increasing their hopes of victory in this match.
The Sporting Braga supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Sporting CP in Primeira Liga and win 1-0. In the preceding match a 2-1 victory visiting Moreirense.
Sporting Braga goalkeeper Matheus did an outstanding job against Sporting CP with eight saves, so vital to securing the victory. Manager M. Martins Sequeira felt very clever after Francisco Trincão scored the winning goal against Sporting CP, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 67th minute.
The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Sporting Braga home games with this odds we find 15 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in ten wins, three draws and two defeats. Looking at the victories, five matches were won by at least two goals.
Sporting Braga have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Estádio Municipal de Braga with 14 goals in 9 league matches. Sporting Braga have conceded 11 in these home matches.
Gil Vicente form and stats
Gil Vicente have only collected 5 points from their away games in the Primeira Liga, after 1-2-6 (9 played).
Gil Vicente failed to get anything from their last game, a Primeira Liga home match vs Moreirense (placed 13th) that ended with defeat 1-5. Prior to that match, the Gil Vicente manager V. Oliveira faced defeat when travelling to Porto and losing 1-2.
As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Moreirense was particularly ugly (1-5). The humiliation is still top of mind.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Gil Vicente played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.
The visitors have scored 5 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. 13 goals have been conceded by Gil Vicente in these games.
Head 2 Head
The last H2H meeting was Gil Vicente - Sporting Braga 1-1, played this season. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Sporting Braga won eight games, one match ended with a draw and Gil Vicente has one win. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: five / fiveTop Goalscorers
  J. Dias Fernandes 8 goals |   S. Cordovil de Lima 8 goals |  R. Horta 4 goals |
Sporting Braga missing players
Gil Vicente missing players
| Sporting Braga | Gil Vicente | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 2 | Played | P | 4 | 9 | 19 |
| 10 | 5 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | 7 |
| 30 | 14 | 4 | Scored | S | 2 | 5 | 19 |
| 21 | 11 | 1 | Conceded | C | 7 | 13 | 24 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 89% | 84% |
| 74% | 78% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 75% | 67% | 74% |
| 47% | 56% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 44% | 42% |
| 26% | 44% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 16% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 5% |
| 47% | 44% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 44% | 53% |
| 26% | 33% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 11% | 26% |
| 26% | 22% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 56% | 37% |
| 6.6 | 7.3 | 6.5 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 3 | 4 | 4.6 |
| 4.1 | 4 | 3.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 7.5 | 6.2 | 5.1 |
| 2.9 | 2.4 | 2.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.4 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 315 | 168 | 48 | Total Shots | T S | 35 | 90 | 208 |
| 111 | 58 | 18 | Shots on Target | S O | 10 | 33 | 83 |
| 27% | 24% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 15% | 23% |
- Gil Vicente have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Gil Vicente have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Sporting Braga have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting Braga have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Gil Vicente have scored away.
- 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 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 47 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 27 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 3 | 39 | 54 |
| 2 | Porto | 19 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 41 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 29 | 47 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 19 | 10 | 3 | 6 | 30 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 10 | 9 | 33 |
| 4 | Famalicão | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 33 | 29 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 12 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 17 | 4 | 32 |
| 5 | Sporting CP | 19 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 29 | 21 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 32 |
| 6 | Rio Ave | 19 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 24 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 29 |
| 7 | Vitória SC | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 26 | 22 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 8 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 14 | 4 | 25 |
| 8 | Boavista | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 16 | 17 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 25 |
| 9 | Vitória FC | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 13 | 20 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | -7 | 25 |
| 10 | Tondela | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 18 | 24 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | -6 | 23 |
| 11 | Santa Clara | 19 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | -7 | 23 |
| 12 | Gil Vicente | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 19 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 13 | -5 | 22 |
| 13 | Moreirense | 19 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 27 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 15 | -1 | 21 |
| 14 | Marítimo | 19 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 18 | 27 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -9 | 20 |
| 15 | Belenenses | 19 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 35 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 18 | -19 | 18 |
| 16 | Paços de Ferreira | 19 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 26 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 16 | -14 | 16 |
| 17 | Portimonense | 19 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 13 | 27 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -14 | 14 |
| 18 | Desportivo Aves | 19 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 21 | 35 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 25 | -14 | 12 |