Sporting Braga 2-2 Zorya Luhansk: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 16 August 2018

Result

Sporting Braga 2-2 Zorya Luhansk

Europa League · Thursday 16 August 2018, 19:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

Sporting Braga · Zorya Luhansk · Europa League predictions

Sporting Braga 2-2 Zorya Luhansk: match report

Sporting Braga drew with Zorya Luhansk 2-2 in the Europa League on Thursday 16 August 2018. It was 0-0 at half-time.

João Novais opened the scoring in the 65th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from João Novais (65') and Ricardo Horta (73'). Zorya Luhansk scored through Rafael Ratão (70') and Oleksandr Karavaev (83').

Discipline: Sporting Braga received 4 yellow cards; Zorya Luhansk received 7 yellow cards.

This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-3-3 and Zorya Luhansk in a 4-4-1-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Sporting Braga wins, 1 draw and 0 for Zorya Luhansk.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 8'Yellow card · Dyego SousaSporting Braga
  • 32'Yellow card · João NovaisSporting Braga
  • 34'Yellow card · Igor KharatinZorya Luhansk
  • 40'Yellow card · Bogdan LednevZorya Luhansk
  • 50'Yellow card · Ricardo HortaSporting Braga
  • 63'Yellow card · SilasZorya Luhansk
  • 64'Yellow card · V. VernydubZorya Luhansk
  • 65'Goal · João NovaisSporting Braga · 1-0
  • 70'Goal · Rafael RatãoZorya Luhansk · 1-1
  • 73'Goal · Ricardo HortaSporting Braga · 2-1
  • 83'Goal · Oleksandr KaravaevZorya Luhansk · 2-2
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Bogdan MykhaylichenkoZorya Luhansk
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Vladyslav KabaevZorya Luhansk
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Ricardo EsgaioSporting Braga
  • 90+7'Yellow card · Oleksandr KaravaevZorya Luhansk

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Sporting Braga 0, draws 1, Zorya Luhansk 0.

Team news

Sporting Braga line-up (4-3-3)

Matheus, Diogo Figueiras, Bruno Viana, Raúl Silva, Nuno Sequeira, Ricardo Esgaio, João Novais, Fransérgio, Wilson Eduardo, Dyego Sousa, Ricardo Horta

Zorya Luhansk line-up (4-4-1-1)

Luis Felipe, Oleksandr Tymchyk, Vitaliy Vernydub, Oleksandr Svatok, Bogdan Mykhaylichenko, Oleksandr Karavaev, Igor Kharatin, Silas, Dmytro Khomchenovskyi, Bogdan Lednev, Rafael Ratão