Sporting Braga 4-0 Belenenses: result and report
Liga Portugal · Saturday 16 December 2017
Result
Sporting Braga 4-0 Belenenses
Liga Portugal · Saturday 16 December 2017, 20:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Sporting Braga 4-0 Belenenses: match report
Sporting Braga defeated Belenenses 4-0 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 16 December 2017. The half-time score was 1-0.
Fábio Martins opened the scoring in the 37th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Fábio Martins (37'), Dyego Sousa (56'), Raúl Silva (88') and Ahmed Hassan (90+5'). Belenenses did not score.
Neither side received a card.
Going into the game Sporting Braga were 4th on 28 points from 14 and Belenenses 10th on 17 points from 14. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 4th with 75 points, and Belenenses 12th with 37.
Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-4-2 and Belenenses in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Raúl Silva of Sporting Braga (8.3), ahead of Fábio Martins (8.2).
Going into the match Sporting Braga's last five read L-W-W-D-W and Belenenses's D-L-L-L-W.
Key events
- 37'Goal · Fábio Martins
- 56'Goal · Dyego Sousa
- 88'Goal · Raúl Silva
- 90+5'Goal · Ahmed Hassan
Team news
Sporting Braga line-up (4-4-2)
Matheus, Jefferson, Ricardo Ferreira, Raúl Silva, Marcelo Goiano, Danilo Barbosa, Fábio Martins, Nikola Vukčević, Ricardo Esgaio, Bruno Xadas, Dyego Sousa
Belenenses line-up (4-3-3)
Muriel, André Geraldes, Nuno Tomás, Florent Hanin, Gonçalo Silva, Bruno Pereirinha, Hassan Yebda, Bakary Bouba Sare, André Sousa, Diogo Viana, J. Hernández