Sporting Braga 2-1 Moreirense: result and report
Liga Portugal · Thursday 22 December 2016
Result
Sporting Braga 2-1 Moreirense
Liga Portugal · Thursday 22 December 2016, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Sporting Braga 2-1 Moreirense: match report
Sporting Braga defeated Moreirense 2-1 in Liga Portugal on Thursday 22 December 2016. The half-time score was 1-1.
André Pinto opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from André Pinto (33') and Ricardo Ferreira (79'). Moreirense scored through Ousmane Drame (41').
Discipline: Sporting Braga received 2 yellow cards; Moreirense received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.
Going into the game Sporting Braga were 3rd on 29 points from 14 and Moreirense 16th on 11 points from 14. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 5th with 54 points, and Moreirense 15th with 33.
Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-4-2 and Moreirense in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Wilson Eduardo of Sporting Braga (7.7), level with Caue (7.7).
Going into the match Sporting Braga's last five read W-W-L-W-L and Moreirense's L-L-W-L-L.
Key events
- 33'Goal · André Pinto
- 41'Goal · Ousmane Drame
- 45+2'Yellow card · Xeka
- 67'Yellow card · Pierre Sagna
- 69'Yellow card · Nikola Vukcevic
- 79'Goal · Ricardo Ferreira
- 90+5'Second yellow · Pierre Sagna
Team news
Sporting Braga line-up (4-4-2)
Marafona, André Pinto, Baiano, Ricardo Ferreira, Marcelo Goiano, Ricardo Horta, Alan, Nikola Vukčević, Xeka, Wilson Eduardo, Pedro Rostoll
Moreirense line-up (4-2-3-1)
Pedro Taborda, Lamine Diarra, Pedro Rebocho, Diego Galo, Pierre Sagna, Chico Geraldes, Caue, Daniel Podence, Neto, Ousmane Drame, Emmanuel Boateng