Sporting Braga 2-1 Nacional: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 16 August 2015
Result
Sporting Braga 2-1 Nacional
Liga Portugal · Sunday 16 August 2015, 17:15 UTC · half-time 1-1
Sporting Braga 2-1 Nacional: match report
Sporting Braga defeated Nacional 2-1 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 16 August 2015. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Tiquinho Soares opened the scoring in the 2nd minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Pedro Santos (11', penalty) and Joan Román (80'). Nacional scored through Tiquinho Soares (2').
Discipline: Sporting Braga received 1 yellow card; Nacional received 3 yellow cards.
Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 4th with 58 points, and Nacional 11th with 38.
Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-3-3 and Nacional in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Eduardo Gottardi of Nacional (7.7), ahead of Salvador Agra (7.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Sporting Braga wins, 2 draws and 3 for Nacional.
Key events
- 2'Goal · Tiquinho Soares
- 10'Yellow card · Luís Aurélio
- 11'Penalty goal · Pedro Santos
- 17'Yellow card · Washington
- 67'Yellow card · João Aurélio
- 80'Goal · Joan Román
- 82'Yellow card · Nikola Vukcevic
Head-to-head
Team news
Sporting Braga expected line-up (4-3-3)
André Pinto, Aderllan Santos, Baiano, Djavan, Felipe Pardo, Luiz Carlos, Rúben Micael, Mauro, José Luís Mendes Andrade
Nacional line-up (4-3-3)
Eduardo Gottardi, João Aurélio, Rui Correia, Zainadine Júnior, Nuno Sequeira, Washington, Ali Ghazal, Nenê Bonilha, Salvador Agra, Tiquinho Soares, Luís Aurélio