Sporting CP 2-1 Sporting Braga: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 8 January 2011

Result

Sporting CP 2-1 Sporting Braga

Liga Portugal · Saturday 8 January 2011, 21:15 UTC · half-time 2-1

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Sporting CP 2-1 Sporting Braga: match report

Sporting CP defeated Sporting Braga 2-1 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 8 January 2011. The half-time score was 2-1.

Diogo Salomão opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Sporting CP's goals came from Diogo Salomão (11') and J. Valdés (13'). Sporting Braga scored through Paulo César (17').

Discipline: Sporting CP received 2 yellow cards; Sporting Braga received 4 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting CP were 3rd on 25 points from 14 and Sporting Braga 7th on 20 points from 14. Sporting CP went on to finish that season 3rd with 48 points, and Sporting Braga 4th with 46.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Sporting CP wins, 0 draws and 5 for Sporting Braga.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Diogo SalomãoSporting CP · 1-0
  • 13'Goal · J. ValdésSporting CP · 2-0
  • 15'Yellow card · Alberto ZapaterSporting CP
  • 17'Goal · Paulo CésarSporting Braga · 2-1
  • 18'Yellow card · J. ValdésSporting CP
  • 29'Yellow card · Miguel GarciaSporting Braga
  • 45'Yellow card · SílvioSporting Braga
  • 55'Yellow card · AlanSporting Braga
  • 74'Yellow card · VandinhoSporting Braga

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Sporting CP 5, draws 0, Sporting Braga 5.

Team news

Sporting CP line-up

Rui Patrício, Ânderson Polga, Evaldo, João Pereira, Jaime Andrés Valdés Zapata, Alberto Zapater, André Santos, Simon Vukčević, Helder Postiga, Liédson, Daniel Carriço

Sporting Braga line-up

Artur Moraes, Paulão, Moisés Moura, Miguel Garcia, Sílvio, Marcio Mossoró, Hugo Viana, Vandinho, Paulo César, Alan, Lima