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
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.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Ricardo Horta
- 23'Yellow card · Nikola Stojiljković
- 24'Missed penalty · Abel Camará
- 31'Yellow card · João Palhinha
- 43'Yellow card · Xeka
- 45+1'Yellow card · Pedro Santos
- 45+2'Yellow card · Florent Hanin
- 59'Yellow card · Pedro Rostoll
- 84'Goal · Ricardo Horta
- 88'Goal · Tiago Caeiro
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