Sporting Braga 2-1 Rio Ave: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 22 January 2012
Result
Sporting Braga 2-1 Rio Ave
Liga Portugal · Sunday 22 January 2012, 16:15 UTC · half-time 2-0
Sporting Braga 2-1 Rio Ave: match report
Sporting Braga defeated Rio Ave 2-1 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 22 January 2012. The half-time score was 2-0.
Douglão opened the scoring in the 39th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Douglão (39') and Hélder Barbosa (43'). Rio Ave scored through Bruno Braga (90+3', penalty).
Discipline: Sporting Braga received 6 yellow cards; Rio Ave received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sporting Braga were 3rd on 31 points from 15 and Rio Ave 13th on 14 points from 15. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 3rd with 62 points, and Rio Ave 14th with 28.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Sporting Braga wins, 3 draws and 1 for Rio Ave.
Going into the match Sporting Braga's last five read W-W-W-W-L and Rio Ave's L-W-L-W-L.
Key events
- 36'Yellow card · Marcio Mossoró
- 38'Yellow card · Douglão
- 38'Yellow card · Jeferson
- 39'Goal · Douglão
- 43'Goal · Hélder Barbosa
- 45'Yellow card · Kelvin
- 52'Yellow card · Bruno Braga
- 54'Yellow card · Vítor Gomes
- 62'Yellow card · Éder
- 70'Yellow card · Hélder Barbosa
- 90+1'Yellow card · Custodio
- 90+2'Yellow card · Hugo Viana
- 90+3'Penalty goal · Bruno Braga
- 90+3'Yellow card · Alan
Head-to-head
Team news
Sporting Braga line-up
Quim, Ewerton, Elderson Echiejile, Douglão, Marcio Mossoró, Hélder Barbosa, Custódio Miguel Dias de Castro, Hugo Viana, Alan, Lima, Leandro Salino
Rio Ave line-up
Huanderson, Gaspar, Jeferson, Jean Sony Alcenat, Tiago Pinto, Tarantini, Wires, Kelvin Oliveira, Christian Atsu, Yazalde, Bruno China