Sporting Braga 2-0 Arouca: result and report

Liga Portugal · Sunday 19 February 2023

Result

Sporting Braga 2-0 Arouca

Liga Portugal · Sunday 19 February 2023, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Sporting Braga · Arouca · Liga Portugal predictions

Sporting Braga 2-0 Arouca: match report

Sporting Braga defeated Arouca 2-0 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 19 February 2023. The half-time score was 1-0.

Abel Ruiz opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Abel Ruiz (1') and Simon Banza (81'). Arouca did not score.

Discipline: Sporting Braga received 1 yellow card; Arouca received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting Braga were 3rd on 46 points from 20 and Arouca 7th on 30 points from 20. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 3rd with 78 points, and Arouca 5th with 54.

Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-4-2 and Arouca in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Simon Banza of Sporting Braga (8.1), ahead of Matheus (7.8).

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

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

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · Abel RuizSporting Braga · 1-0
  • 37'Yellow card · Uroš RačićSporting Braga
  • 45'Yellow card · João BassoArouca
  • 66'Yellow card · Pedro MoreiraArouca
  • 74'Yellow card · Nino GalovicArouca
  • 74'Yellow card · Bruno PintoArouca
  • 81'Goal · Simon BanzaSporting Braga · 2-0

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Sporting Braga 3, draws 0, Arouca 0.

Team news

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

Matheus, Víctor Gómez, Paulo Oliveira, Vítor Tormena, Nuno Sequeira, Bruma, Uros Racic, Moatasem Al-Musrati, Ricardo Horta, Simon Banza, Abel Ruiz

Arouca line-up (4-3-3)

Ignacio de Arruabarrena, Bogdan Milovanov, Basso, Nino Galović, Quaresma, Bruno Pinto, Alan Ruiz, Morlaye Sylla, Ismaila Soro, Antony, Oday Dabbagh