Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Sporting Braga & Benfica face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Taça De Portugal. All the pre-match information is available here!
These are full days for the team playing at home, as they were in action only four days ago in the Liga Portugal. This match was also played here at Estádio Municipal de Braga. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Benfica have had more rest.
Sporting Braga form and stats
Sporting Braga participated in Taça De Portugal the last season, where they reached the round of 16.The home supporters can't complain about results here at Estádio Municipal de Braga as Sporting Braga have scored 19 goals to get 19 points from 9 games. The overall stats in the Liga Portugal are 6-1-2 (wins-draws-losses).
Braga's last game was hosting Famalicão and winning 4-1. Gómez was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.83 out of 10. The defender Gómez served one assist, hit three key passes and won 5 of 10 duels.
Prior to that, an away loss at Sporting CP in the Liga Portugal.There will be little rest for Sporting Braga after this match as they are travelling to Maritimo for a Liga Portugal game in only three days.
Goals decide football matches and Sporting Braga are scoring many of them at home; 19 on target from 9 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 6 from 9 matches.
Benfica form and stats
They also participated in Taça De Portugal last season. This ended in the round of 16.Benfica have been very strong on the road so far with a massive 25 points collected from 10 Liga Portugal games. 8 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat is the record so far.
Benfica have succeeded in guarding their own goal lately, led by their goalkeeper Odisseas Vlachodimos. It's been 397 minutes since they last conceded in Liga Portugal.
Benfica are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the match against Casa Pia. Mário has found the net for the away team three matches in a row. The smartness! Mário got a match rating of 9.14 in that game, top player of the team. Mário scored two goals, served one assist, hit four key passes and had 76 successful passes (of 83 total).
Preceding that game was the away Liga Portugal victory against Arouca with the score of 3-0.Benfica are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 19 times in 10 away games so far. Benfica are tight as a drum on their travels, having allowed the opposition only {4 goals} away.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head statistics (for the previous ten meetings): Braga won six games, zero matches ended with a tie and Benfica have four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / three.
Top Goalscorers
  J. Naval da Costa Eduardo 12 goals |  G. Ramos 12 goals |   R. Horta 8 goals |
Sporting Braga missing players
Benfica missing players
| Sporting Braga | Benfica | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 14 | 25 | ||
| 17 | 10 | Won | W | 9 | 17 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 4 | 6 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Lost | L | 1 | 2 | ||
| 42 | 24 | Scored | S | 29 | 59 | ||
| 30 | 9 | Conceded | C | 10 | 20 | ||
| 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 69% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 79% | 80% | ||
| 60% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 43% | 52% | ||
| 28% | 15% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 21% | 36% | ||
| 24% | 15% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 21% | 28% | ||
| 40% | 38% | BTTS | BTTS | 43% | 44% | ||
| 40% | 46% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 15% | Failed to Score | F T | 14% | 12% | ||
| 5.8 | 6.3 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 6.6 | 6.9 | ||
| 3.8 | 2.9 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.6 | 3.6 | ||
| 2.7 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 1.8 | ||
| 5 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | ||
| 14.8 | 17.2 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.4 | 16 | ||
| 5.4 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6.4 | 7.4 | ||
| 31% | 34% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 32% | ||
| 11.3 | 11.4 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 9.1 | 8.4 | ||
| 3.5 | 3.4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.8 | ||
| 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 | 20 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 51 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 32 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 4 | 39 | 53 |
| 2 | Porto | 19 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 45 | 11 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 30 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 6 | 34 | 45 |
| 3 | Sporting Braga | 19 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 43 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 24 | 43 |
| 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 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | -2 | 30 |
| 6 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 19 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 18 | 20 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 13 | -2 | 30 |
| 7 | Arouca | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 23 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 15 | 15 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 14 | -6 | 27 |
| 8 | Chaves | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 19 | 24 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 15 | -5 | 25 |
| 9 | Boavista | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 22 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 15 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 14 | -7 | 25 |
| 10 | Vizela | 19 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 24 |
| 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 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 19 | -9 | 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 | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 16 | 23 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 10 | -7 | 19 |
| 15 | Gil Vicente | 19 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 19 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 11 | 17 | -8 | 19 |
| 16 | Santa Clara | 19 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 14 | 25 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 8 | -11 | 15 |
| 17 | Maritimo | 19 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 35 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 25 | -23 | 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 |
