Farense vs Braga Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Farense

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Farense will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 1-0 Primeira Liga defeat last time out to Famalicão.

In that game, Farense had 37% possession and 6 shots on goal with 1 on target. For their opponents, Famalicão got 21 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Jhonder Cádiz (79') scored for Famalicão.

José Mota's Farense have celebrated scoring 10 times over their past 6 outings. The corresponding number of goals that they have conceded in those fixtures stands at 7.

Looking at their past form shows that Farense:

• have not registered a win against Braga in home games against them for the last 2 league games.
• haven't won against Braga in their previous 4 league games.

Braga

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Braga go into this match following on from a 2-3 Primeira Liga win over Moreirense in their most recent game.

In that match, Braga had 59% possession and 11 shots at goal with 5 on target. For Braga, goals were scored by Rony Lopes (26'), Simon Banza (82') and Almoatasembellah Al Musrati (97'). For their opponents, Moreirense got 11 attempts on goal with 3 on target. André Luís (39') and Madson (45') scored for Moreirense.

Braga have been a threat going forward of late, scoring 15 goals in their previous 6 matches. While their manager Artur Jorge will no doubt take that as a positive sign, Braga can also improve defensively after being scored against in 5 of those same outings. That kind of pattern might not be continued here, however.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head-to-head clashes dating back to 07/01/2001 shows us that Farense have won 1 of these games & Braga 4, with the number of drawn games standing at 1.

A combined sum of 16 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 of them from Farense and 12 coming from Os Arcebispos. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

The previous league clash between these sides was Primeira Liga match day 25 on 05/04/2021 which ended up with the score at Farense 1-2 Braga.

In that match, Farense managed 36% possession and 18 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Pedro Henrique (34').

Braga got 14 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. Almoatasembellah Al Musrati (29') and Andraž Šporar (91') scored.

The referee was Rui Costa.

📰 Team News: Farense

The Farense manager José Mota will be happy not to have any fitness worries to speak of before this match owing to a fully injury-free squad ready to go.

🗞️ Team News: Braga

Owing to a fully healthy group available to choose from, the Braga boss Artur Jorge has no fitness worries to report ahead of this game.

⚡ Prediction

In our opinion, Farense should get enough chances to get a goal against this Braga side, although just one goal likely won’t prevent them from conceding a couple at the other end.

We’ve gone for a narrow 1-2 winning score for Braga at the end of this one. Let’s see what eventuates.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 08:27 13/09/2023