Alverca vs Braga - prediction, team news, lineups

Looking to unafraid back-to-back Primeira Liga victories for the archetypal clip since April, Braga marque the travel to winless Alverca for matchday 5 enactment of the 2026-27 campaign.

The Minho-based visitors person seen their early-season fixture docket disrupted by a mates of postponements, and they beryllium ninth successful the Portuguese top-flight table aft picking up 4 points from 2 games, portion the 16th-placed hosts person managed conscionable 2 points from their opening 4 matches.

Match preview

Braga finished 4th successful the Primeira Liga past word for a 3rd consecutive play and a 5th clip successful six campaigns, and portion the Archbishops would person been looking to unafraid a top-three spot this term, their momentum has been disrupted by a stop-start opening aft failing to footwear disconnected connected a cleanable note.

Carlos Vicens's broadside surrendered a two-goal pb to settee for a 2-2 gully astatine Moreirense connected the opening weekend, earlier their matchday 2 and 3 fixtures against Gil Vicente and Estrela Amadora were postponed owed to a gastrointestinal corruption and European commitments, respectively.

Braga's instrumentality to home enactment saw them unafraid a hard-fought 1-0 triumph implicit Vitoria de Guimaraes in Monday's Minho derby, wherever Diego Rodrigues's 79th-minute onslaught proved decisive.

The Archbishops person present kept cleanable sheets successful 7 of their 8 competitory matches this season, having not conceded a azygous extremity crossed six encounters successful their tally to the Conference League league phase, with their lone concession coming successful that opening-day gully astatine Moreirense.

As such, Braga person yet to triumph immoderate of their past 3 league distant matches (D2, L1), conceding precisely doubly successful each of those encounters, truthful different show of excellence astatine the backmost could beryllium cardinal to securing maximum points successful Ribatejo.

Meanwhile, Alverca participate this brushwood looking to extremity a seven-match winless tally successful the league (D3. L4), a tally stretching backmost to the erstwhile play erstwhile they finished 11th connected their instrumentality to the Portuguese apical formation nether erstwhile brag Custodio, who departed astatine the extremity of 2025-26.

New manager Sergio Ferreira has so endured a hard commencement to beingness astatine the Ribatejo outfit, having alternated betwixt distant defeats to heavyweight sides Porto and Sporting Lisbon with draws connected their location turf against Estrela (2-2) and Santa Clara (1-1) past weekend.

Vivaldo Semedo's 69th-minute header could lone gain Ferreira's broadside a constituent from that brushwood with the Azoreans aft conceding a precocious equaliser from Brenner, but the effect did widen Alverca's unbeaten league tally astatine location to 5 matches (W2, D3), stretching backmost to the erstwhile campaign.

However, protecting that streak volition travel nether a existent trial this weekend, fixed the Ribatejo nine mislaid some meetings with Braga past term, suffering a 3-0 decision successful this precise fixture earlier a 5-0 thrashing successful Minho backmost successful January.

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Team News

Alverca volition measure right-back Nabil Touaizi aft the Moroccan was forced disconnected conscionable 21 minutes into past weekend's gully with Santa Clara, with Diogo Spencer expected to deputise should helium neglect to recover.

Sabit Abdulai and Julian Martinez some stay sidelined done genu injuries, portion Bastien Meupiyou is simply a uncertainty with a sound of his own.

Meanwhile, Semedo is expected to pb the enactment erstwhile again aft netting his 2nd extremity of the run against Santa Clara.

Braga attacker Rodrigues is pushing for his archetypal league commencement since March aft coming disconnected the seat to people the victor successful Monday's triumph implicit Vitoria connected what was his archetypal Primeira Liga quality this season.

In presumption of injury, Vicens volition beryllium without skipper Ricardo Horta, who is sidelined with a thigh issue, portion Bright Arrey-Mbi (muscle), Jean-Baptiste Gorby and semipermanent absentee Sikou Niakate (Achilles) besides stay unavailable.

Summer signing Jonas Wind has returned to afloat grooming aft recovering from wounded and could marque his competitory debut this weekend.

Alverca imaginable starting lineup:

Mendes; Baseya, Bojang, James; Spencer, Rayan Lucas, Luccas, Chissumba; Figueiredo, Vidigal; Semedo

Braga imaginable starting lineup:

Fontes; Lagerbielke, Carvalho, Barcia; Gomez, Tiknaz, Moutinho, Travassos; G Silva, Pau Victor, Rodrigues

We say: Alverca 0-1 Braga

Although Alverca person struggled truthful acold this season, they person been resilient connected their ain turf successful caller months, truthful we expect them to springiness Braga a situation this weekend.

However, the Archbishops person what it takes to grind retired a hard-fought triumph successful what shapes up to beryllium a tightly contested conflict successful Ribatejo.

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