AEK Athens 2-4 Sporting Braga: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 3 December 2020

Result

AEK Athens 2-4 Sporting Braga

Europa League · Thursday 3 December 2020, 17:55 UTC · half-time 1-3

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AEK Athens 2-4 Sporting Braga: match report

AEK Athens were beaten by Sporting Braga 2-4 in the Europa League on Thursday 3 December 2020. It was 1-3 at half-time.

Vítor Tormena opened the scoring in the 7th minute. AEK Athens's goals came from Nélson Oliveira (31') and Stavros Vasilantonopoulos (89'). Sporting Braga scored through Vítor Tormena (7'), Ricardo Esgaio (9'), Ricardo Horta (45') and Galeno (82').

Discipline: AEK Athens received 3 yellow cards; Sporting Braga received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game AEK Athens were 28th on 9 points from 6 and Sporting Braga 33rd on 7 points from 4. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

AEK Athens lined up in a 4-3-3 and Sporting Braga in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Galeno of Sporting Braga (8.9), ahead of Ricardo Esgaio (8.0).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 AEK Athens wins, 0 draws and 1 for Sporting Braga.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Goal · Vítor TormenaSporting Braga · 0-1
  • 9'Goal · Ricardo EsgaioSporting Braga · 0-2
  • 30'Yellow card · Bruno VianaSporting Braga
  • 31'Goal · Nélson OliveiraAEK Athens · 1-2
  • 45'Goal · Ricardo HortaSporting Braga · 1-3
  • 50'Yellow card · Al MusratiSporting Braga
  • 58'Yellow card · Stavros VasilantonopoulosAEK Athens
  • 70'Yellow card · Emanuel InsúaAEK Athens
  • 74'Yellow card · André CastroSporting Braga
  • 74'Yellow card · Ricardo EsgaioSporting Braga
  • 74'Yellow card · Petros MantalosAEK Athens
  • 82'Goal · GalenoSporting Braga · 1-4
  • 89'Goal · Stavros VasilantonopoulosAEK Athens · 2-4

Head-to-head

1 meetings: AEK Athens 0, draws 0, Sporting Braga 1.

Team news

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AEK Athens line-up (4-3-3)

Panagiotis Tsintotas, M. Bakakis, Nassim Hnid, Ionuț Nedelcearu, Emanuel Insúa, Konstantinos Galanopoulos, André Simões, Petros Mantalos, Christos Almpanis, Nélson Oliveira, Marko Livaja

Sporting Braga line-up (3-4-2-1)

Matheus, Vítor Tormena, Bruno Viana, Nuno Sequeira, Ricardo Esgaio, Moatasem Al-Musrati, Castro, Galeno, Iuri Medeiros, Ricardo Horta, Paulinho