Sporting Braga 1–2 FC Porto — Primeira Liga 2025/26 Match Stats

Primeira Liga · 2025Sun, 22 Mar 2026, 20:30 UTCEstádio Municipal de Braga

Sporting Braga

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1–2Historical match

FC Porto

WWWDW

A completed match from a finished season. This page is the record of what happened.

Match at a glance

FC Porto won 1–2.

Shots: 612
Shots on target: 13
Expected goals: 0.991.19
Possession: 62%38%

Full time

What the match recorded

FC Porto beat SC Braga 2–1. Recorded in this match (SC Braga – FC Porto): shots 6–12, shots on target 1–3, expected goals 0.99–1.19, possession 62%–38%. This is what was recorded. It is not a claim that the result was foreseeable.

Pre-match record

What the data showed before kick-off. Kept for reference; it did not know the result.

Both teams have elevated corners records

strong

Each team's season corners average is above the competition baseline.

5.54 corners/match ●CornersSC Braga · FC Porto5.46 corners/match

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: Both team averages are compared with the same competition baseline.

Window: season

Metric	SC Braga	FC Porto	Baseline
Corners	5.54 corners/match	5.46 corners/match	4.36 corners/match

Caveat: A shared historical pattern is descriptive and may not repeat in one fixture.

SC Braga's recent record differs from the season

weak

SC Braga's last-five shots average is below their season average.

10.8 shots/match ▲ShotsLast 5 · Season12.9 shots/match

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: An unweighted last-five average is compared with the unweighted season average.

Window: last_5 versus season

Metric	Last 5	Season	Baseline
Shots	10.8 shots/match	12.9 shots/match	12.2 shots/match

Caveat: Five matches are sensitive to opponent mix and isolated match states.

The teams have contrasting possession records

moderate

SC Braga have recorded the higher season possession share.

63.8% ●PossessionSC Braga · FC Porto55.6%

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: The recorded possession gap is 8.2 percentage points.

Window: season

Metric	SC Braga	FC Porto	Baseline
Possession	63.8%	55.6%	49.7%

Caveat: Possession share does not show where possession occurred or how chances were created.

This match

Match statistics

Shots6 shots12 shotsSporting Braga 6 shots, FC Porto 12 shots
Shots on target1 shot3 shotsSporting Braga 1 shot, FC Porto 3 shots
Expected goals0.99 xG1.19 xGSporting Braga 0.99 xG, FC Porto 1.19 xG
Possession62%38%Sporting Braga 62%, FC Porto 38%
Corners3 corners5 cornersSporting Braga 3 corners, FC Porto 5 corners
Fouls12 fouls15 foulsSporting Braga 12 fouls, FC Porto 15 fouls
Yellow cards4 cards5 cardsSporting Braga 4 cards, FC Porto 5 cards

Every shot

Shot map

Every recorded shot, placed where it was taken and sized by its expected-goals value. Arrows show each team’s attacking direction.

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on target
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SC Braga: 6 shots, 1 on target, 1.03 xG. FC Porto: 12 shots, 3 on target, 1.21 xG.

How the match built

Expected-goals timeline

Expected goals accumulated minute by minute. Circles mark the goals that were actually scored.

The step line is cumulative expected goals; circles mark goals. Final: SC Braga 1.03 xG · FC Porto 1.21 xG.

History

Head-to-head

Recent meetings between these teams.

Last 5 meetings

1Sporting Braga

0Draws

4FC Porto

2 Nov 2025FC Porto — Sporting Braga · Primeira Liga2–1

8 Mar 2025Sporting Braga — FC Porto · Primeira Liga1–0

6 Oct 2024FC Porto — Sporting Braga · Primeira Liga2–1

18 May 2024Sporting Braga — FC Porto · Primeira Liga0–1

14 Jan 2024FC Porto — Sporting Braga · Primeira Liga2–0

Head-to-Head & Recent Meetings

Metric comparison

Team comparison

Season averages, with the sample size beside each metric.

Where the edge is

Season: Sporting Braga favored in 2 of 11 directional metrics · FC Porto in 6 · 3 too close

led this metric higher value (descriptive) too close

Window

Season

Sporting Braga28 matchesFC Porto28 matches

2.11 goals/match ▲Goals scored28/282 goals/match

1.04 goals/matchGoals allowed28/28▲ 0.39 goals/match

1.92 xG/match ▲Expected goals26/271.82 xG/match

12.9 shots/matchShots28/28▲ 14.3 shots/match

5.25 shots/matchShots on target28/285.32 shots/match

63.8% ●Possession28/2855.6%

5.54 corners/match ●Corners28/285.46 corners/match

2.12 cards/matchCards25/252.36 cards/match

11.5 fouls/matchFouls28/2813.5 fouls/match

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade A · Strong evidenceStrong evidence — limited

Season samples28 / 28home / away teams

Recent samples5 / 5last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

The fixture is outside the configured active season.
Recent samples and important metric coverage meet the strong evidence threshold.

Known unknowns

Lineups, injuries, suspensions and tactical changes are not available in the retained dataset.
The fixture season differs from the competition's configured active season.

Analysis cutoff: Mon, 23 Mar 2026, 00:30 UTC · analysis-v4

Team rankings in Primeira Liga

Goals per match ranking xG per match ranking Shots per match ranking

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Match at a glance