Sporting Braga 1-0 Rio Ave: result and report

Liga Portugal · Monday 21 March 2011

Result

Sporting Braga 1-0 Rio Ave

Liga Portugal · Monday 21 March 2011, 18:45 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Sporting Braga 1-0 Rio Ave: match report

Sporting Braga defeated Rio Ave 1-0 in Liga Portugal on Monday 21 March 2011. The half-time score was 0-0.

The only goal came from Hugo Viana of Sporting Braga in the 73rd minute.

Discipline: Sporting Braga received 5 yellow cards; Rio Ave received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting Braga were 7th on 31 points from 22 and Rio Ave 12th on 27 points from 23. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 4th with 46 points, and Rio Ave 8th with 38.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Sporting Braga wins, 2 draws and 1 for Rio Ave.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 30'Yellow card · TarantiniRio Ave
  • 45'Yellow card · João TomásRio Ave
  • 53'Yellow card · KakáSporting Braga
  • 71'Yellow card · Marcio MossoróSporting Braga
  • 71'Yellow card · SílvioSporting Braga
  • 72'Yellow card · GasparRio Ave
  • 73'Goal · Hugo VianaSporting Braga · 1-0
  • 79'Yellow card · Miguel GarciaSporting Braga
  • 81'Yellow card · SauloRio Ave
  • 87'Yellow card · Vítor GomesRio Ave
  • 90'Yellow card · Leandro SalinoSporting Braga

Head-to-head

7 meetings: Sporting Braga 4, draws 2, Rio Ave 1.

Team news

Sporting Braga line-up

Artur Moraes, Paulão, Kaká, Miguel Garcia, Sílvio, Hugo Viana, Vandinho, Ukra, Paulo César, Alan, Lima

Rio Ave line-up

Paulo Santos, Gaspar, Jeferson, Tiago Pinto, Júlio Alves, Bruno Gama, Tarantini, Bruno Braga, Wires, João Tomás, Yazalde