On Monday Apr 25th, in week 31, Sporting Braga plays host to Porto in a meeting of these two closely matched Primeira Liga teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 15 degrees, which is great football weather. 4th placed Sporting Braga is fresh off their 0-0 scoreless draw against Estoril. Neither Estoril nor Sporting Braga could manage to put one past the goalie. They had 15 and 13 shots on net respectively, but no one could score, and the match ended in a scoreless draw,. With 18 points in their last 10 matches Sporting Braga should be reasonably happy with their performance, while 1st placed Porto is fresh off their 7-0 blowout win against Portimonense. Mehdi Taremi struck first for Porto in the 19th minute, then Marko Grujić added another in the 28th minute In the end, Portimonense was frustrated by Porto’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Porto ended the match with the shutout victory. Porto is on a hot streak lately, having won 8 of their last 10.
On Dec 12th, Porto hosted Sporting Braga at the Estádio Do Dragão in their last match together. Porto was victorious by a score of 1 to 0 in front of just over 22000 spectators. Luis Díaz struck first for Porto in the 22nd minute, and that single goal was all that was necessary as neither team could manage any more scoring In the end, Sporting Braga was frustrated by Porto’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Porto ended the match with the shutout victory.
Porto is glad to have Mehdi Taremi in top form. In the last five matches the attacker has scored four goals. Iuri Medeiros has been the most effective weapon for Sporting Braga lately. The Portugeese attacker has netted 2 goals in his last five matches.