Braga vs Estoril Praia - prediction, team news, lineups

Looking to bounce backmost from their decision successful midweek, Braga invited winless Estoril Praia to Estadio Municipal de Braga for a matchday six brushwood connected Monday.

Carlos Vicens's broadside participate this fixture connected the backmost of a nonaccomplishment astatine Estrela da Amadora successful their rescheduled gameweek 3 fixture connected Thursday, 3 days aft the Canaries' goalless gully against Arouca.

Match preview

After going 9 games unbeaten crossed each competitions successful 2026-27, Braga suffered their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the season, going down 2-1 astatine Estrela da Amadora, contempt opening the scoring wrong 5 minutes done Gabri Martinez.

That midweek decision successful Alverca - wherever Estrela were forced to play aft Liga Portugal suspended the transportation astatine their Jose Gomes crushed - leaves the Archbishops eighth successful the early-season Primeira Liga table aft picking up 7 points from their opening 4 league fixtures.

Braga had kicked disconnected their top-flight run with a 2-2 gully astatine Moreirense earlier their matchday 2 fixture with Gil Vicente was postponed, preceding back-to-back league wins implicit Vitoria de Guimaraes and Alverca.

The Archbishop's decision past clip retired comes arsenic a immense setback to their top-three ambitions aft Vicens's men finished 4th past term, slipping down to a UEFA Conference League qualification berth aft Torreense's upset Taca de Portugal triumph implicit Sporting CP.

That said, a instrumentality to acquainted surroundings connected Monday should connection assurance for the hosts, who person won each of their past 4 location matches crossed each competitions, scoring 8 goals successful that agelong whilst keeping cleanable sheets successful each four.

Estoril person endured a hard commencement to beingness nether Vasco Matos, who is yet to grounds a azygous competitory triumph crossed the opening 5 league fixtures since taking implicit the reins this summer.

In fact, the Canaries person present gone 13 top-flight games without a win, a tally stretching backmost to their triumph implicit Nacional connected matchday 26 of the erstwhile play nether Ian Cathro, who led the nine to a 10th-placed decorativeness past term.

Currently 2nd from bottommost successful the Primeira Liga, Matos's broadside person struggled successful the last third, with lone bottom-placed Casa Pia, who are yet to people this term, having recovered the nett less times than Estoril's 2 successful the division.

Although their deficiency of cutting borderline was evident erstwhile again past clip out, the goalless gully against Arouca ended a three-match losing streak against Nacional, Rio Ave and Benfica pursuing an opening-day gully with Famalicao.

The Canaries are besides winless successful their past six distant league matches (D2, L4), though 1 of those 2 draws did astatine slightest travel astatine this precise venue, a 1-1 stalemate the past clip Estoril visited Braga, and they volition beryllium hoping to prime up thing from this travel north.
 

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Team News

Braga brag Vicens remains without skipper Ricardo Horta and midfielder Jean-Baptiste Gorby, who are some sidelined with injuries, portion Sikou Niakate continues to retrieve from the Achilles tendon wounded helium suffered successful April. 

Meanwhile, 25-year-old midfielder Denis Huseinbasic could besides stay unavailable, though the quality of his existent contented is unclear.

As for Estoril, caput manager Vasco Matos could manus debuts to arsenic galore arsenic 3 deadline-day signings successful left-back Roko Jurisic, midfielder Milan Robin and winger Nail Omerovic, though it remains to beryllium seen whether immoderate of the trio volition beryllium progressive from the start.

Summer enlistee Xavi Sintes has yet to diagnostic since joining from Cordoba and remains sidelined with a genu problem, leaving Ferro and Ismael Sierra arsenic the astir apt centre-back pairing for the travel north.
 

Braga imaginable starting lineup:

Bernardo; Barcia, V Carvalho, Lagerbielke; Gomez, Moutinho, Tiknaz, G Martinez; Dorgeles, Navarro, Pau Victor

Estoril Praia imaginable starting lineup:

Robles; Medrano, Ferro, Sierra, Sanchez; Tsoungui, Holsgrove; Garcia, Carvalho, Lacximicant; Begraoui

We say: Braga 2-0 Estoril Praia

Braga's beardown location grounds should beryllium capable to spot disconnected an Estoril broadside that are inactive searching for their archetypal league triumph of the season.

The visitors' distant struggles successful peculiar marque this a daunting assignment, and a regular location triumph looks the astir apt result connected Monday.

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