Nacional 3-2 Sporting Braga: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 12 January 2013

Result

Nacional 3-2 Sporting Braga

Liga Portugal · Saturday 12 January 2013, 20:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

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Nacional 3-2 Sporting Braga: match report

Nacional beat Sporting Braga 3-2 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 12 January 2013. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Hélder Barbosa opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Nacional's goals came from Mexer (58'), Diego Barcelos (60') and an own goal by Ismaily (77'). Sporting Braga scored through Hélder Barbosa (36') and Éder (83').

Discipline: Nacional received 4 yellow cards; Sporting Braga received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Nacional were 14th on 12 points from 13 and Sporting Braga 3rd on 26 points from 13. Nacional went on to finish that season 8th with 40 points, and Sporting Braga 4th with 52.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Nacional wins, 3 draws and 7 for Sporting Braga.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 36'Goal · Hélder BarbosaSporting Braga · 0-1
  • 54'Yellow card · M. da CostaNacional
  • 54'Yellow card · Marcio MossoróSporting Braga
  • 56'Yellow card · ClaudemirNacional
  • 58'Goal · MexerNacional · 1-1
  • 60'Goal · Diego BarcelosNacional · 2-1
  • 69'Yellow card · MarçalNacional
  • 70'Yellow card · Hugo VianaSporting Braga
  • 75'Yellow card · MexerNacional
  • 77'Own goal · IsmailyNacional · 3-1
  • 83'Goal · ÉderSporting Braga · 3-2
  • 84'Second yellow · Hugo VianaSporting Braga
  • 90+3'Yellow card · ÉderSporting Braga

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nacional 0, draws 3, Sporting Braga 7.

Team news

Nacional line-up

Eduardo Gottardi, João Aurélio, Manuel Da Costa, Mexer, Marçal, Moreno, Miguel Rodrigues, Claudemir Pereira Da Silva, Mario Rondon, Isael, Ladji Keita

Sporting Braga line-up

Maximilian Haas, Baiano, Paulo Vinícius, Marcio Mossoró, Hélder Barbosa, Custódio Miguel Dias de Castro, Alan, Hugo Viana, Éder, Leandro Salino, Beto