Sporting Braga 2-4 Shakhtar Donetsk: result and report

Sporting Braga 2-4 Shakhtar Donetsk

Europa League · Thursday 8 December 2016, 16:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Sporting Braga were beaten by Shakhtar Donetsk 2-4 in the Europa League on Thursday 8 December 2016. It was 1-2 at half-time.

Sergiy Kryvtsov opened the scoring in the 22nd minute. Sporting Braga's goals came from Nikola Stojiljković (43') and Nikola Vukcevic (89'). Shakhtar Donetsk scored through Sergiy Kryvtsov (22'), Taison (39'), Sergiy Kryvtsov (62') and Taison (66').

Discipline: Sporting Braga received 1 yellow card; Shakhtar Donetsk received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting Braga were 69th on 6 points from 5 and Shakhtar Donetsk 5th on 18 points from 7. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Sporting Braga lined up in a 4-3-3 and Shakhtar Donetsk in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Nikola Vukčević of Sporting Braga (8.7), level with Serhiy Kryvtsov (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Sporting Braga wins, 1 draw and 4 for Shakhtar Donetsk.