Sporting Braga 2-1 Rio Ave: result and report

Sporting Braga 2-1 Rio Ave

Liga Portugal · Saturday 6 January 2018, 20:30 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Sporting Braga defeated Rio Ave 2-1 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 6 January 2018. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Ricardo Horta opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Ricardo Horta (19') and Fábio Martins (83'). Rio Ave scored through João Novais (42').

Discipline: Sporting Braga received 4 yellow cards; Rio Ave received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting Braga were 4th on 34 points from 16 and Rio Ave 5th on 27 points from 16. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 4th with 75 points, and Rio Ave 5th with 51.

Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Rio Ave in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Rúben Ribeiro of Rio Ave (8.1), ahead of Ricardo Horta (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Sporting Braga wins, 3 draws and 3 for Rio Ave.