Nacional 1-2 Sporting Braga: result and report

Liga Portugal · Sunday 28 February 2021

Result

Nacional 1-2 Sporting Braga

Liga Portugal · Sunday 28 February 2021, 20:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Nacional 1-2 Sporting Braga: match report

Nacional were beaten by Sporting Braga 1-2 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 28 February 2021. It was 0-2 at half-time.

Fransérgio opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Nacional's goal came from Brayan Riascos (69'). Sporting Braga scored through Fransérgio (25') and Abel Ruiz (29').

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

Going into the game Nacional were 12th on 21 points from 20 and Sporting Braga 3rd on 43 points from 20. Nacional went on to finish that season 18th with 25 points, and Sporting Braga 4th with 64.

Nacional lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Sporting Braga in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Fransérgio of Sporting Braga (8.2), ahead of Rui Correia (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Nacional wins, 2 draws and 8 for Sporting Braga.

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 25'Goal · FransérgioSporting Braga · 0-1
  • 29'Goal · Abel RuizSporting Braga · 0-2
  • 59'Yellow card · PedrãoNacional
  • 69'Goal · Brayan RiascosNacional · 1-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nacional 0, draws 2, Sporting Braga 8.

Team news

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Nacional line-up (4-1-4-1)

Riccardo Piscitelli, Kalindi, Pedrão, Rui Correia, João Vigário, Nuno Borges, Vincent Thill, Francisco Ramos, Larry Azouni, Kenji Gorré, Brayan Riascos

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

Matheus, Vítor Tormena, Bruno Rodrigues, Cristián Borja, Ricardo Esgaio, Moatasem Al-Musrati, Fransérgio, Galeno, Lucas Piazón, Ricardo Horta, Abel Ruiz