Sporting Braga 4-1 Rio Ave: result and report

Liga Portugal · Sunday 23 September 2012

Result

Sporting Braga 4-1 Rio Ave

Liga Portugal · Sunday 23 September 2012, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Sporting Braga 4-1 Rio Ave: match report

Sporting Braga won against Rio Ave 4-1 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 23 September 2012. The half-time score was 1-0.

Éder opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Éder (45'), Rúben Amorim (63'), Éder (69') and Custodio (75', penalty). Rio Ave scored through Edimar (53').

Discipline: Sporting Braga received 3 yellow cards; Rio Ave received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Sporting Braga were 8th on 4 points from 3 and Rio Ave 9th on 4 points from 3. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 4th with 52 points, and Rio Ave 7th with 42.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Sporting Braga wins, 3 draws and 1 for Rio Ave.

Going into the match Sporting Braga's last five read L-W-D and Rio Ave's D-W-L.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Yellow card · Hélder BarbosaSporting Braga
  • 18'Yellow card · DouglãoSporting Braga
  • 29'Yellow card · MarceloRio Ave
  • 45'Goal · ÉderSporting Braga · 1-0
  • 46'Yellow card · WiresRio Ave
  • 53'Goal · EdimarRio Ave · 1-1
  • 63'Goal · Rúben AmorimSporting Braga · 2-1
  • 69'Goal · ÉderSporting Braga · 3-1
  • 73'Red card · NivaldoRio Ave
  • 75'Penalty goal · CustodioSporting Braga · 4-1
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Djamal MahamatSporting Braga

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Sporting Braga 6, draws 3, Rio Ave 1.

Team news

Sporting Braga line-up

Elderson Echiejile, Douglão, Hélder Barbosa, Rúben Micael, Custódio Miguel Dias de Castro, Hugo Viana, Éder, Ruben Amorim, Leandro Salino, Paulo Vinícius, Beto

Rio Ave line-up

Jan Oblak, Nivaldo, Edimar, Lionn, Marcelo, Tarantini, Bruno Braga, Filipe Augusto, Diego Lopes, Wires, Esmaël Gonçalves