Santa Clara 3-2 Sporting Braga: result and report

Liga Portugal · Friday 5 June 2020

Result

Santa Clara 3-2 Sporting Braga

Liga Portugal · Friday 5 June 2020, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Santa Clara 3-2 Sporting Braga: match report

Santa Clara defeated Sporting Braga 3-2 in Liga Portugal on Friday 5 June 2020. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Fransérgio opened the scoring in the 20th minute. Santa Clara's goals came from Thiago (34'), Thiago (66', penalty) and Carlos (90+2'). Sporting Braga scored through Fransérgio (20', penalty) and Francisco Trincão (56').

Discipline: Santa Clara received 5 yellow cards; Sporting Braga received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Santa Clara were 10th on 30 points from 24 and Sporting Braga 3rd on 46 points from 24. Santa Clara went on to finish that season 10th with 43 points, and Sporting Braga 3rd with 60.

Santa Clara lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Sporting Braga in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Thiago Santana of Santa Clara (8.8), ahead of Lincoln (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Santa Clara wins, 1 draw and 2 for Sporting Braga.

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 20'Penalty goal · FransérgioSporting Braga · 0-1
  • 27'Yellow card · Fábio CardosoSanta Clara
  • 34'Goal · ThiagoSanta Clara · 1-1
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Raúl SilvaSporting Braga
  • 56'Goal · Francisco TrincãoSporting Braga · 1-2
  • 64'Second yellow · Raúl SilvaSporting Braga
  • 66'Penalty goal · ThiagoSanta Clara · 2-2
  • 73'Yellow card · Mamadu CandeSanta Clara
  • 87'Yellow card · João AfonsoSanta Clara
  • 90'Yellow card · CryzanSanta Clara
  • 90+2'Goal · CarlosSanta Clara · 3-2
  • 90+3'Yellow card · CarlosSanta Clara

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Santa Clara 0, draws 1, Sporting Braga 2.

Team news

Santa Clara line-up (4-2-3-1)

Marco Pereira, Pierre Sagna, João Afonso, Fábio Cardoso, Mamadu Cande, Anderson Carvalho, Francisco Ramos, Carlos Júnior, Lincoln, Zaidu Sanusi, Thiago Santana

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

Matheus, Bruno Viana, David Carmo, Raúl Silva, Ricardo Esgaio, João Palhinha, Fransérgio, Nuno Sequeira, Francisco Trincão, Paulinho, Ricardo Horta