📏 Form Guide

Braga

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Braga will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 0-4 Primeira Liga victory against AVS.

In that match, Braga managed 67% possession and 10 attempts on goal with 8 on target. For Braga, the scorers were Horta (7'), Rodrigo Zalazar (30') and Víctor (80', 83'). For their opponents, AVS had 8 attempts at goal with 3 on target.

Their latest results highlight the fact that it has been a great time for the Braga defence. Braga have been miserly, resulting in the number of goals that have flown into the back of their net during their previous 6 clashes standing at 3.

Their prior results show that Braga:

• have not registered a win against Rio Ave in their last 2 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 5 league matches at home.

Rio Ave

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Arouca in Primeira Liga competition, Rio Ave will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Rio Ave managed 51% possession and 8 attempts at goal with 0 of them on target. For their opponents, Arouca got 18 attempts on goal with 7 on target. Esgaio (44'), Barbero (53') and Hyun-ju Lee (66') scored for Arouca.

In as many as 5 of the previous 6 clashes involving Rio Ave, three or more goals have gone in. The average goals scored per game in that spell is 3.5, with the average number of goals for Rio Ave equalling 0.83. We shall soon find out whether or not that trend can be sustained in this game.

Pre-game facts show that Rio Ave:

• haven't beaten Braga in games played away from home for the previous 10 matches in the league. Very poor away form.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A glance at their prior head to head meetings dating back to 05/03/2023 shows that Braga have won 3 of these & Rio Ave 1, with the tally of drawn results being 2.

An aggregate of 16 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 11 of them for Os Arcebispos and 5 for Rio Grande . The average goals per game has been 2.67.

The last league match featuring these sides was Primeira Liga match day 4 on 31/08/2025 which ended up with the score at Rio Ave 2-2 Braga.

In that game, Rio Ave managed 28% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 3 on target. Their only player to score was Clayton (14', 24').

Braga got 20 attempts on goal with 9 on target. Roger Fernandes (22') and Amine El Ouazzani (88') scored.

The referee was Fábio Veríssimo.

📋 Team News: Braga

We are thinking that Os Arcebispos look set to use a 4-2-3-1 system for the game, beginning the first half with Lukas Hornicek, Víctor Gómez, Gustaf Lagerbielke, Bright Arrey-Mbi, Leonardo Lelo, Jean-Baptiste Gorby, Gabriel Moscardo, Ricardo Horta, Florian Grillitsch, Rodrigo Zalazar and Fran Navarro.

📰 Team News: Rio Ave

We believe Rio Grande might begin the game with a 3-4-3 formation, going with Kevin Chamorro, Francisco Petrasso, Julien Lomboto, Nelson Abbey, Marios Vrousai, Andreas Ntoi, Brandon Aguilera, Omar Richards, Antonis Papakanellos, Dario Spikic and Ole Pohlmann.

⚡ Prediction

We feel that Braga will most probably dominate possession and create several successful chances.

At the other end, Rio Ave could well struggle to score but we can see them being dangerous for periods.

Accordingly, we see a decent 3-1 win for Braga after 90 minutes.

Victor Martins, 02:06 04/02/2026