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 · Moreirense · Liga Portugal predictions

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.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 33'Goal · André PintoSporting Braga · 1-0
  • 41'Goal · Ousmane DrameMoreirense · 1-1
  • 45+2'Yellow card · XekaSporting Braga
  • 67'Yellow card · Pierre SagnaMoreirense
  • 69'Yellow card · Nikola VukcevicSporting Braga
  • 79'Goal · Ricardo FerreiraSporting Braga · 2-1
  • 90+5'Second yellow · Pierre SagnaMoreirense

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