Perhaps a welcome break from league football as Vizela & Sporting Braga face off to decide who makes it to next stage of the Taça De Portugal. All the pre-match information is available here!
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Vizela form and stats
Vizela participated in Taça De Portugal the last season, where they reached the 3rd round.Vizela's struggle is real here at Estádio Do Vizela with only 7 points collected from 7 Primeira Liga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-4-2.
The Vizela fans got no joy from their last match, a Primeira Liga game also here at Estádio Do Vizela: A 0-4 defeat against Porto. As you see from the result above, Vizela suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Aidara, defender, was given a rating of 6.81/10 in that game, top of the team. Aidara won 7 of 9 duels.
Before that match, a Primeira Liga win away at Arouca.Vizela have scored 6 league goals here from 7 matches, not a lot. 10 goals have been conceded.
Sporting Braga form and stats
Nothing but glory last season for Braga, as they won the Taça De Portugal.The story so far for the visiting team on their Primeira Liga travels is 3 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats.
Sporting Braga had fun at their own home (Estádio Do Vizela) last time out, beating Belenenses 1-0. Moura scored. Medeiros, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.83. Medeiros served one assist, hit four key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times.
It was a League Cup defeat before that one as the away game against Boavista wasn't a success with a 1-5 loss.Braga have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 7 league away games 8 goals have been scored. Sporting Braga have conceded 10 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last two matches): Vizela zero wins, zero draws and Sporting Braga two victories. As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), zero games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Horta 9 goals |   G. Schettine Guimarães 5 goals |  I. Picanço Medeiros 4 goals |
Vizela missing players
Sporting Braga missing players
| Vizela | Sporting Braga | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 14 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 3 | Won | W | 4 | 13 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Drew | D | 2 | 6 | ||
| 10 | 6 | Lost | L | 5 | 6 | ||
| 33 | 19 | Scored | S | 16 | 49 | ||
| 41 | 22 | Conceded | C | 20 | 32 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 88% | ||
| 84% | 79% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 64% | 72% | ||
| 52% | 43% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 55% | 60% | ||
| 32% | 29% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 45% | 48% | ||
| 20% | 21% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 45% | 36% | ||
| 64% | 64% | BTTS | BTTS | 55% | 56% | ||
| 16% | 14% | Clean Sheets | C S | 36% | 40% | ||
| 28% | 29% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 16% | ||
| 5.3 | 6.1 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 5.9 | ||
| 5.2 | 4.6 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.4 | 4.5 | ||
| 2.7 | 2.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.2 | 2.4 | ||
| 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 2 | ||
| 14.2 | 16.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.1 | 16.2 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.1 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 5 | ||
| 28% | 28% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 42% | 38% | ||
| 12.2 | 10.2 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 12.1 | 9.2 | ||
| 4.3 | 3.3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 3.5 | ||
| 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 | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 5 | 30 | 41 |
| 2 | Sporting CP | 15 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 22 | 41 |
| 3 | Benfica | 15 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 46 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 34 | 37 |
| 4 | Sporting Braga | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 24 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 8 | 28 |
| 5 | Estoril | 15 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 21 | 15 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 6 | 25 |
| 6 | Portimonense | 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 24 |
| 7 | Vitoria Guimaraes | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 21 | 16 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 22 |
| 8 | Gil Vicente | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 18 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 20 |
| 9 | Boavista | 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 17 | 25 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 17 | -8 | 15 |
| 10 | Maritimo | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 18 | 26 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 18 | -8 | 14 |
| 11 | Pacos de Ferreira | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 9 | -8 | 14 |
| 12 | Arouca | 15 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 25 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 13 | -9 | 14 |
| 13 | Vizela | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 15 | -11 | 13 |
| 14 | Santa Clara | 15 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 30 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 16 | -17 | 13 |
| 15 | Tondela | 14 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 19 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 16 | -10 | 12 |
| 16 | Famalicao | 15 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 30 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 14 | 17 | -11 | 11 |
| 17 | Moreirense | 14 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 14 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -10 | 9 |
| 18 | Belenenses | 14 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 9 | -17 | 8 |