Sporting Braga 5-3 Santa Clara: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 14 May 2023
Result
Sporting Braga 5-3 Santa Clara
Liga Portugal · Sunday 14 May 2023, 17:00 UTC · half-time 3-1
Sporting Braga 5-3 Santa Clara: match report
Sporting Braga won against Santa Clara 5-3 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 14 May 2023. It was 3-1 at half-time.
Ricardo Horta opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Ricardo Horta (10'), Sikou Niakaté (35'), Abel Ruiz (45+5'), Bruma (87') and Pizzi (90+4'). Santa Clara scored through Matheus Babi (17', penalty), Matheus Babi (70', penalty) and Kennedy Boateng (85').
Discipline: Sporting Braga received 3 yellow cards; Santa Clara received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sporting Braga were 3rd on 71 points from 31 and Santa Clara 18th on 19 points from 31. Sporting Braga went on to finish that season 3rd with 78 points, and Santa Clara 18th with 22.
Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-1-3-2 and Santa Clara in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Iuri Medeiros of Sporting Braga (9.1), ahead of Bruma (8.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Sporting Braga wins, 2 draws and 1 for Santa Clara.
Key events
- 10'Goal · Ricardo Horta
- 15'Yellow card · Paulo Oliveira
- 17'Penalty goal · Matheus Babi
- 21'Yellow card · Gabriel Silva
- 35'Goal · Sikou Niakaté
- 42'Yellow card · Ygor Nogueira
- 45+5'Goal · Abel Ruiz
- 65'Yellow card · Ricardinho
- 70'Penalty goal · Matheus Babi
- 79'Yellow card · Sikou Niakaté
- 85'Goal · Kennedy Boateng
- 87'Goal · Bruma
- 88'Yellow card · Bruma
- 90+2'Yellow card · Rildo
- 90+4'Goal · Pizzi
Head-to-head
Team news
Sporting Braga line-up (4-1-3-2)
Matheus, Víctor Gómez, Paulo Oliveira, Sikou Niakaté, Nuno Sequeira, Uros Racic, Iuri Medeiros, André Horta, Bruma, Abel Ruiz, Ricardo Horta
Santa Clara line-up (4-2-3-1)
Gabriel Batista, Pierre Sagna, Ygor Nogueira, Kennedy Boateng, MT, Bruno Jordão, Adriano Firmino, Gabriel Silva, Bruno Almeida, Ricardinho, Matheus Babi