Sporting Braga 2-1 Académica: result and report
Liga Portugal · Monday 26 March 2012
Result
Sporting Braga 2-1 Académica
Liga Portugal · Monday 26 March 2012, 19:15 UTC · half-time 2-0
Sporting Braga 2-1 Académica: match report
Sporting Braga beat Académica 2-1 in Liga Portugal on Monday 26 March 2012. The half-time score was 2-0.
Marcio Mossoró opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Marcio Mossoró (36') and Lima (45'). Académica scored through Bruno Pinto (62').
Discipline: Sporting Braga received 1 yellow card; Académica received 5 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sporting Braga were 3rd on 55 points from 23 and Académica 13th on 23 points from 23. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 3rd with 62 points, and Académica 12th with 29.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Sporting Braga wins, 5 draws and 0 for Académica.
Going into the match Sporting Braga's last five read W-W-W-W-W and Académica's L-D-D-D-L.
Key events
- 36'Goal · Marcio Mossoró
- 45'Goal · Lima
- 51'Yellow card · Cédric Soares
- 57'Yellow card · Marinho
- 62'Goal · Bruno Pinto
- 73'Yellow card · Nivaldo
- 83'Yellow card · Djamal Mahamat
- 87'Yellow card · Reiner Ferreira
- 90+2'Yellow card · Saulo
Head-to-head
Team news
Sporting Braga line-up
Quim, Nuno André Coelho, Miguel Lopes, Elderson Echiejile, Douglão, Marcio Mossoró, Hélder Barbosa, Custódio Miguel Dias de Castro, Hugo Viana, Paulo César, Lima
Académica line-up
Romuald Peiser, Flávio, Nivaldo, Reiner Ferreira, Cédric Soares, Pape Sow, Adrien Silva, Diogo Melo, Marinho, Diogo Valente, Edinho