Sporting Braga 0-2 Beşiktaş: result and report
Europa League · Tuesday 14 February 2012
Result
Sporting Braga 0-2 Beşiktaş
Europa League · Tuesday 14 February 2012, 17:30 UTC · half-time 0-1
Sporting Braga 0-2 Beşiktaş: match report
Sporting Braga were beaten by Beşiktaş 0-2 in the Europa League on Tuesday 14 February 2012. It was 0-1 at half-time.
Tomáš Sivok opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Sporting Braga did not score. Beşiktaş scored through Tomáš Sivok (37') and Simão (58').
Discipline: Sporting Braga received 1 yellow card and 1 red card; Beşiktaş received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sporting Braga were 32nd on 13 points from 8 and Beşiktaş 22nd on 15 points from 8. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.
Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Beşiktaş in a 4-3-1-2.
Going into the match Sporting Braga's last five read D-W-W-D-L and Beşiktaş's W-W-W-L-L.
Key events
- 23'Yellow card · Hélder Barbosa
- 26'Yellow card · Egemen Korkmaz
- 29'Second yellow · Hélder Barbosa
- 37'Goal · Tomáš Sivok
- 41'Yellow card · Veli Kavlak
- 49'Yellow card · Ibrahim Toraman
- 57'Yellow card · Simão
- 58'Goal · Simão
- 68'Yellow card · Hugo Almeida
Team news
Sporting Braga line-up (4-4-1-1)
Quim, Ewerton, Miguel Lopes, Douglão, Marcio Mossoró, Hélder Barbosa, Custódio Miguel Dias de Castro, Hugo Viana, Alan, Lima, Leandro Salino
Beşiktaş line-up (4-3-1-2)
Cenk Gönen, Ibrahim Toraman, Tomáš Sivok, Necip Uysal, Egemen Korkmaz, Tanju Kayhan, Manuel Fernandes, Veli Kavlak, Simão, Fabian Ernst, Ricardo Quaresma