The standings reveals that 17 points split the two contenders in this Primeira Liga match. Sporting Braga hold both the points- and home ground advantage.
- Sporting Braga have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Paços de Ferreira have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
Sporting Braga and Paços de Ferreira should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Sporting Braga form and stats
6-3-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Primeira Liga numbers at home for Sporting Braga so far this season.
In their previous game, the manager Carvalhal led his Sporting Braga to a defeat away at Vitoria Guimaraes. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Estádio Municipal de Braga. The gifted forward Horta outdid all teammates in that fixture and was awarded a match rating of 7.83 out of 10. Horta served one assist and hit six key passes.
Previous to that game, a home match hosting Moreirense in a game that was won 2-0.Sporting 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 13, drew two and lost one.
The Sporting Braga fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 20 goals in 11 league matches. Sporting 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 9 from 11 matches.
Paços de Ferreira form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Paços de Ferreira so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 2-4-4 (win-draw-lose). The Paços de Ferreira manager Peixoto is a generous human being, having led his team to four draws in a row during the last 33 days.
Paços de Ferreira played 1-1 against Portimonense in their previous match. Goalkeeper Ferreira got the top player rating of the team with 9.0/10. Ferreira saved a penalty.
Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Estoril that ended 0-0.We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Ferreira played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win one time, zero were draws and the home team won as expected three times.
Goals are few and far between in Paços de Ferreira's away league games. Only 5 goals from 10 travels. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 0 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 11 goals have been conceded by Paços de Ferreira in these games.
Head 2 Head
This duo played each other earlier this match year: Paços de Ferreira - Braga 0-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Sporting Braga five wins, three draws and Paços de Ferreira two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Horta 11 goals |  V. Carvalho Oliveira 5 goals | I. Picanço Medeiros 5 goals |
Sporting Braga missing players
Paços de Ferreira missing players
| Sporting Braga | Paços de Ferreira | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 21 | 11 | 4 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 21 |
| 11 | 6 | 3 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 5 | 3 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | 9 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 37 | 20 | 9 | Scored | S | 1 | 5 | 15 |
| 22 | 9 | 2 | Conceded | C | 4 | 11 | 24 |
| 90% | 91% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 81% |
| 71% | 73% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 67% |
| 52% | 55% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 20% | 29% |
| 33% | 36% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 19% | 9% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 48% | 45% | 25% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 30% | 43% |
| 43% | 45% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 33% |
| 19% | 18% | 25% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 43% |
| 4.7 | 5.6 | 5.5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 2 | 4.9 | 5.2 |
| 4.2 | 3.3 | 4.2 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 10 | 5.2 | 5.1 |
| 2.6 | 2.7 | 3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4 | 3 | 3.2 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 13.3 | 16.7 | 16.5 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 6 | 10.4 | 11 |
| 4.8 | 5.8 | 4.8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 1 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| 37% | 31% | 47% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 50% | 15% | 22% |
| 10.5 | 8.3 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 23 | 14.7 | 14.4 |
| 3.2 | 2.6 | 3.2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 5.8 | 5.4 |
- Paços de Ferreira have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
- Sporting Braga have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Sporting Braga have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
- Sporting Braga have scored more than double the goals of Paços de Ferreira.
| 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 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 55 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 28 | 8 | 41 | 59 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 21 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 41 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 22 | 8 | 28 | 53 |
| 3 | Benfica | 20 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 53 | 18 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 11 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 28 | 7 | 35 | 44 |
| 4 | Sporting Braga | 21 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 37 | 22 | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 13 | 15 | 38 |
| 5 | Gil Vicente | 21 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 32 | 24 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 8 | 34 |
| 6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 21 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 32 | 26 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 20 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 15 | 6 | 30 |
| 7 | Estoril | 21 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 25 | 24 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 27 |
| 8 | Portimonense | 21 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 21 | 23 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 14 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 9 | -2 | 26 |
| 9 | Maritimo | 21 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 25 | 30 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 21 | -5 | 25 |
| 10 | Santa Clara | 21 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 25 | 39 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 14 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 20 | -14 | 24 |
| 11 | Vizela | 21 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 24 | 36 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 21 | -12 | 23 |
| 12 | Paços de Ferreira | 21 | 4 | 9 | 8 | 15 | 24 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 11 | -9 | 21 |
| 13 | Boavista | 21 | 3 | 11 | 7 | 24 | 33 | 11 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -9 | 20 |
| 14 | Tondela | 20 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 28 | 40 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 20 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 20 | -12 | 20 |
| 15 | Arouca | 21 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 38 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 16 | -19 | 18 |
| 16 | Famalicao | 21 | 3 | 8 | 10 | 23 | 37 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 24 | -14 | 17 |
| 17 | Moreirense | 20 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 18 | 31 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 17 | -13 | 16 |
| 18 | Belenenses | 20 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 37 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 24 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 13 | -25 | 12 |
