Sporting Braga 4-2 Nacional: result and report

Liga Portugal · Sunday 12 August 2018

Result

Sporting Braga 4-2 Nacional

Liga Portugal · Sunday 12 August 2018, 19:30 UTC · half-time 2-2

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Sporting Braga 4-2 Nacional: match report

Sporting Braga won against Nacional 4-2 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 12 August 2018. It was 2-2 at half-time.

Dyego Sousa opened the scoring in the 4th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Dyego Sousa (4'), Dyego Sousa (32'), Ricardo Horta (48') and Ricardo Horta (72'). Nacional scored through Bryan Róchez (23', penalty) and Bryan Róchez (37').

Discipline: Sporting Braga received 1 yellow card; Nacional received 3 yellow cards.

Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 4th with 64 points, and Nacional 17th with 28.

Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-4-2 and Nacional in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Dyego Sousa of Sporting Braga (9.2), ahead of Ricardo Horta (8.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Sporting Braga wins, 2 draws and 3 for Nacional.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Goal · Dyego SousaSporting Braga · 1-0
  • 15'Yellow card · Mauro CerqueiraNacional
  • 23'Penalty goal · Bryan RóchezNacional · 1-1
  • 32'Goal · Dyego SousaSporting Braga · 2-1
  • 37'Goal · Bryan RóchezNacional · 2-2
  • 43'Yellow card · Jota GarcêsNacional
  • 48'Goal · Ricardo HortaSporting Braga · 3-2
  • 71'Yellow card · Diogo FigueirasSporting Braga
  • 72'Goal · Ricardo HortaSporting Braga · 4-2
  • 81'Yellow card · Ibrahim AlhassanNacional

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Sporting Braga 5, draws 2, Nacional 3.

Team news

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

Matheus, Diogo Figueiras, Nuno Sequeira, Raúl Silva, Bruno Viana, Eduardo, Ricardo Horta, Claudemir, Ricardo Esgaio, Fransérgio, Dyego Sousa

Nacional line-up (4-4-2)

Daniel, Nuno Campos, Arthur Henrique, Diogo Coelho, Mauro Cerqueira, Ibrahim Alhassan, João Camacho, Witiness Quembo, Vítor Gonçalves, Jota, Bryan Rochez