Sporting Braga 2-0 Rio Ave: result and report

Liga Portugal · Sunday 5 March 2023

Result

Sporting Braga 2-0 Rio Ave

Liga Portugal · Sunday 5 March 2023, 20:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

Sporting Braga · Rio Ave · Liga Portugal predictions

Sporting Braga 2-0 Rio Ave: match report

Sporting Braga won against Rio Ave 2-0 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 5 March 2023. The half-time score was 1-0.

Bruma opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Bruma (36') and Simon Banza (79'). Rio Ave did not score.

Discipline: Sporting Braga received 1 yellow card; Rio Ave received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting Braga were 3rd on 49 points from 22 and Rio Ave 11th on 27 points from 22. This fixture belongs to an earlier Liga Portugal season and is kept for reference.

Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-4-2 and Rio Ave in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Iuri Medeiros of Sporting Braga (8.2), ahead of Matheus (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Sporting Braga wins, 2 draws and 3 for Rio Ave.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 36'Goal · BrumaSporting Braga · 1-0
  • 44'Yellow card · Al MusratiSporting Braga
  • 79'Goal · Simon BanzaSporting Braga · 2-0

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Sporting Braga 5, draws 2, Rio Ave 3.

Team news

Sporting Braga line-up (4-4-2)

Matheus, Víctor Gómez, Vítor Tormena, Serdar Saatçı, Nuno Sequeira, Iuri Medeiros, Moatasem Al-Musrati, André Horta, Bruma, Ricardo Horta, Abel Ruiz

Rio Ave line-up (3-5-2)

Jhonatan, Patrick William, Aderllan Santos, Josué Sá, Costinha, Guga, Andreas Samaris, Miguel Baeza, Fábio Ronaldo, André Pereira, Emmanuel Boateng