Rangers 1-1 Sporting Braga: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 27 November 2025

Result

Rangers 1-1 Sporting Braga

Europa League · Thursday 27 November 2025, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Rangers · Sporting Braga · Europa League predictions

Rangers 1-1 Sporting Braga: match report

Rangers drew with Sporting Braga 1-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 27 November 2025. It was 1-0 at half-time.

James Tavernier opened the scoring in the 45th minute. Rangers's goal came from James Tavernier (45+3', penalty). Sporting Braga scored through Gabri Martínez (69').

Discipline: Rangers received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Sporting Braga received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Rangers were 76th on 0 points from 4 and Sporting Braga 2nd on 23 points from 10. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Rangers lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sporting Braga in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to James Tavernier of Rangers (7.8), ahead of Emmanuel Fernandez (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Rangers wins, 0 draws and 1 for Sporting Braga.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 41'Yellow card · Fran NavarroSporting Braga
  • 45+3'Penalty goal · James TavernierRangers · 1-0
  • 45+4'Yellow card · Mohamed DiomandéRangers
  • 57'Yellow cardSporting Braga
  • 58'Yellow cardRangers
  • 61'Red card · Rodrigo ZalazarSporting Braga
  • 69'Goal · Gabri MartínezSporting Braga · 1-1
  • 77'Yellow card · Gabri MartínezSporting Braga
  • 90+5'Second yellow · Mohamed DiomandéRangers
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Víctor GómezSporting Braga

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Rangers 3, draws 0, Sporting Braga 1.

Team news

Rangers line-up (4-2-3-1)

Jack Butland, James Tavernier, Nasser Djiga, Emmanuel Fernandez, Max Aarons, Nicolas Raskin, Connor Barron, Djeidi Gassama, Mohamed Diomandé, Danilo, Youssef Chermiti

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

Lukas Hornicek, Bright Arrey-Mbi, Gustaf Lagerbielke, Sikou Niakaté, Víctor Gómez, Gorby, João Moutinho, Gabri Martínez, Rodrigo Zalazar, Ricardo Horta, Fran Navarro