Sporting CP 2-0 Sporting Braga: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 2 January 2021

Result

Sporting CP 2-0 Sporting Braga

Liga Portugal · Saturday 2 January 2021, 18:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Sporting CP 2-0 Sporting Braga: match report

Sporting CP won against Sporting Braga 2-0 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 2 January 2021. The half-time score was 0-0.

Pedro Gonçalves opened the scoring in the 54th minute. Sporting CP's goals came from Pedro Gonçalves (54') and Matheus Nunes (78'). Sporting Braga did not score.

Discipline: Sporting CP received 3 yellow cards; Sporting Braga received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting CP were 1st on 29 points from 11 and Sporting Braga 4th on 24 points from 11. Sporting CP went on to finish that season 1st with 85 points, and Sporting Braga 4th with 64.

Sporting CP lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Sporting Braga in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Matheus Nunes of Sporting CP (7.8), ahead of Antonio Adán (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Sporting CP wins, 1 draw and 4 for Sporting Braga.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 37'Yellow card · GalenoSporting Braga
  • 51'Yellow card · Raúl SilvaSporting Braga
  • 54'Goal · Pedro GonçalvesSporting CP · 1-0
  • 58'Yellow card · Al MusratiSporting Braga
  • 78'Goal · Matheus NunesSporting CP · 2-0
  • 80'Yellow card · Pedro PorroSporting CP
  • 88'Yellow card · Matheus MagalhãesSporting Braga
  • 90+1'Yellow card · Matheus NunesSporting CP
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Vitorino AntunesSporting CP

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Sporting CP 5, draws 1, Sporting Braga 4.

Team news

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Sporting CP line-up (3-4-2-1)

Antonio Adán, Luís Neto, Sebastián Coates, Zouhair Feddal, Pedro Porro, João Palhinha, João Mário, Nuno Mendes, Pedro Gonçalves, Nuno Santos, Tiago Tomás

Sporting Braga line-up (3-4-2-1)

Matheus, Akio Kogiku, Raúl Silva, Nuno Sequeira, Ricardo Esgaio, Moatasem Al-Musrati, João Novais, Galeno, Ricardo Horta, Fransérgio, Paulinho