Roma 3-1 Sporting Braga: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 25 February 2021

Result

Roma 3-1 Sporting Braga

Europa League · Thursday 25 February 2021, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Roma · Sporting Braga · Europa League predictions

Roma 3-1 Sporting Braga: match report

Roma defeated Sporting Braga 3-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 25 February 2021. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Edin Dzeko opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Roma's goals came from Edin Dzeko (23'), Carles Pérez (74') and Borja Mayoral (90+1'). Sporting Braga scored through an own goal by Bryan Cristante (87').

Discipline: Roma received 1 yellow card; Sporting Braga received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Roma were 12th on 16 points from 7 and Sporting Braga 23rd on 13 points from 7. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Roma lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Sporting Braga in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Carles Pérez of Roma (8.3), ahead of Edin Džeko (7.8).

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 23'Goal · Edin DzekoRoma · 1-0
  • 56'Yellow card · Jordan VeretoutRoma
  • 72'Missed penalty · Lorenzo PellegriniRoma
  • 74'Goal · Carles PérezRoma · 2-0
  • 87'Own goal · Bryan CristanteSporting Braga · 2-1
  • 90+1'Goal · Borja MayoralRoma · 3-1

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Roma 1, draws 0, Sporting Braga 0.

Team news

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Roma line-up (3-4-2-1)

Pau López, Rick Karsdorp, Bryan Cristante, Gianluca Mancini, Jordan Veretout, Gonzalo Villar, Amadou Diawara, Bruno Peres, Pedro, Stephan El Shaarawy, Edin Džeko

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

Tiago Sá, Vítor Tormena, Akio Kogiku, Nuno Sequeira, José Carlos Teixeira Lopes dos Reis Gonçalves, João Novais, André Horta, Galeno, Lucas Piazón, Nico Gaitán, Andraz Sporar