Porto 3-1 Sporting Braga: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 3 February 2018

Result

Porto 3-1 Sporting Braga

Liga Portugal · Saturday 3 February 2018, 20:30 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Porto 3-1 Sporting Braga: match report

Porto defeated Sporting Braga 3-1 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 3 February 2018. The half-time score was 2-1.

Sérgio Oliveira opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Porto's goals came from Sérgio Oliveira (13'), Diego Reyes (38') and Vincent Aboubakar (73'). Sporting Braga scored through Raúl Silva (31').

Discipline: Porto received 1 yellow card; Sporting Braga received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Porto were 3rd on 49 points from 19 and Sporting Braga 4th on 43 points from 20. Porto went on to finish that season 1st with 88 points, and Sporting Braga 4th with 75.

Porto lined up in a 4-4-2 and Sporting Braga in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Alex Telles of Porto (9.4), ahead of Diego Reyes (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Porto wins, 0 draws and 0 for Sporting Braga.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · Sérgio OliveiraPorto · 1-0
  • 31'Goal · Raúl SilvaSporting Braga · 1-1
  • 38'Goal · Diego ReyesPorto · 2-1
  • 41'Yellow card · PaulinhoSporting Braga
  • 73'Goal · Vincent AboubakarPorto · 3-1
  • 80'Yellow card · Danilo BarbosaSporting Braga
  • 83'Yellow card · Héctor HerreraPorto

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Porto 2, draws 0, Sporting Braga 0.

Team news

Porto line-up (4-4-2)

José Sá, Alex Telles, Ricardo Pereira, Diego Reyes, Felipe Augusto de Almeida Monteiro, Yacine Brahimi, Héctor Herrera, Jesús Corona, Sérgio Oliveira, Vincent Aboubakar, Moussa Marega

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

Matheus, Diogo Figueiras, Jefferson, Raúl Silva, Bruno Viana, Danilo Barbosa, Ricardo Horta, Nikola Vukčević, Ricardo Esgaio, Wilson Eduardo, Paulinho