Sporting Braga 2-0 Rio Ave: result and report

Sporting Braga 2-0 Rio Ave

Liga Portugal · Sunday 5 March 2023, 20:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Sporting Braga won against Rio Ave 2-0 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 5 March 2023. The half-time score was 1-0.

Bruma opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Bruma (36') and Simon Banza (79'). Rio Ave did not score.

Discipline: Sporting Braga received 1 yellow card; Rio Ave received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting Braga were 3rd on 49 points from 22 and Rio Ave 11th on 27 points from 22. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 3rd with 78 points, and Rio Ave 12th with 40.

Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-4-2 and Rio Ave in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Iuri Medeiros of Sporting Braga (8.2), ahead of Matheus (8.1).

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