Sporting Braga 2-1 Belenenses: result and report

Liga Portugal · Sunday 30 October 2016

Result

Sporting Braga 2-1 Belenenses

Liga Portugal · Sunday 30 October 2016, 20:15 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Sporting Braga 2-1 Belenenses: match report

Sporting Braga won against Belenenses 2-1 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 30 October 2016. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Ricardo Horta opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Ricardo Horta (5') and Ricardo Horta (84'). Belenenses scored through Tiago Caeiro (88').

Discipline: Sporting Braga received 4 yellow cards; Belenenses received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting Braga were 4th on 17 points from 8 and Belenenses 13th on 9 points from 8. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 5th with 54 points, and Belenenses 14th with 36.

Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Belenenses in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Ricardo Horta of Sporting Braga (8.9), ahead of Tiago Caeiro (7.5).

Going into the match Sporting Braga's last five read W-D-W-L-W and Belenenses's L-L-D-D-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 5'Goal · Ricardo HortaSporting Braga · 1-0
  • 23'Yellow card · Nikola StojiljkovićSporting Braga
  • 24'Missed penalty · Abel CamaráBelenenses
  • 31'Yellow card · João PalhinhaBelenenses
  • 43'Yellow card · XekaSporting Braga
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Pedro SantosSporting Braga
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Florent HaninBelenenses
  • 59'Yellow card · Pedro RostollSporting Braga
  • 84'Goal · Ricardo HortaSporting Braga · 2-0
  • 88'Goal · Tiago CaeiroBelenenses · 2-1

Team news

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

Marafona, Emiliano Velázquez, Baiano, Artur Jorge, Marcelo Goiano, Pedro Rostoll, Ricardo Horta, Pedro Santos, Nikola Vukčević, Xeka, Nikola Stojiljkovic

Belenenses line-up (4-4-2)

Joel Pereira, Oriol Rosell, Domingos Duarte, Gonçalo Brandão, Florent Hanin, Daniel Jara, Fábio Sturgeon, Vitor Gomes, João Palhinha, André Sousa, Kenan Özer