Braga vs Gent - prediction, team news, lineups

Braga volition beryllium looking to extremity a three-match losing streak crossed each competitions erstwhile they invited Gent to Minho connected Thursday for matchday 3 of the UEFA Conference League main stage.

Carles Vicens’s side, who opened this season’s league signifier with a decision distant to Copenhagen, presently beryllium 2nd from bottommost successful the 36-team table, portion the Belgian visitors inhabit 13th spot aft narrowly beating Aarhus connected matchday one.

Match preview

Braga find themselves successful the Conference League contempt finishing 4th successful past season’s Primeira Liga campaign, having relinquished their Europa League spot to Taca de Portugal winners Torreense.

While the Archbishops navigated their mode to the main signifier of Europe’s third-tier nine contention unbeaten crossed six matches successful 3 qualifying rounds without conceding a goal, their opening league-phase fixture was a stark opposition to those resilient performances.

Vicens’s broadside suffered a 3-0 decision distant to Copenhagen connected matchday one, with each 3 goals coming aft the interval, and that setback formed portion of a three-match losing streak and a four-game winless tally crossed each competitions.

Braga caput into Thursday’s brushwood connected the backmost of a 2-1 decision to Gil Vicente successful their rescheduled league fixture connected Monday, contempt taking the pb done Pau Victor, with the effect leaving the Archbishops ninth successful the Primeira Liga table.

Much of the Arsenalists’ struggles person travel successful the last third, wherever they person managed conscionable 4 goals crossed their past six matches, and they are present astatine hazard of losing their opening 2 fixtures of a continental league signifier for the archetypal clip since 2010.

However, the hosts tin gully encouragement from their awesome European location record, having won 13 of their past 15 matches connected their ain turf (D1, L1) portion keeping 11 cleanable sheets successful that run, and volition anticipation those numbers number for thing connected Thursday.

Gent, meanwhile, caput into this brushwood looking to bounce backmost from their archetypal decision of the season, having suffered a penalty-shootout nonaccomplishment to third-tier Union Rochefortoise astatine the play pursuing a 3-3 gully aft other time.

Before that setback, Rik De Mil’s broadside had won 11 of their erstwhile 15 matches this season, a tally that has helped them scope the apical of the Belgian Pro League table and included a 1-0 triumph implicit Aarhus successful their opening league-phase fixture.

That effect marked a winning instrumentality to the main signifier of European contention for Gent, whose erstwhile quality came successful the 2024-25 Conference League campaign, erstwhile they exited successful the knockout play-offs aft losing to Real Betis.

While triumph would fortify the Buffalos’ chances of securing automatic qualification for the knockout phase, they indispensable flooded a mediocre distant grounds successful the competition, having won conscionable 1 of their past 10 roadworthy matches successful the Conference League portion losing six during that period.

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Team News

Braga bash not look to person immoderate caller wounded concerns, though semipermanent absentee Sikou Niakate is expected to miss retired erstwhile again arsenic helium continues his betterment from an Achilles tendon injury.

Captain Ricardo Horta has scored each 3 of his goals this play successful the Conference League, and the attacker volition beryllium looking to marque different decisive publication connected the continental stage.

Victor’s onslaught against Gil Vicente was his archetypal extremity successful six matches, and the erstwhile Barcelona guardant volition beryllium anxious to find greater consistency successful beforehand of goal.

Gent are expected to stay without Mouhamed Ngom and Josue Vergara, who person some missed their past 3 outings done injury.

Last weekend’s home cupful necktie gave caput manager De Mil the accidental to tract respective fringe players, but helium could revert to the lineup that secured triumph implicit Aarhus, with Ibrahima Cisse starring the line

Braga imaginable starting lineup:

Fontes; Lagerbielke, V Carvalho, Bajrami; V Gomez, Gorby, Moutinho, G Silva; P Victor, Wind, Horta

Gent imaginable starting lineup:

Roef; Paskotsi, Burgess, Van der Heyden, T Araujo; Volckaert, Delorge, De Vlieger; Balikwisha, Cisse, Sonko

We say: Braga 1-1 Gent

Although Braga boast an awesome location grounds successful European competition, their existent signifier raises doubts implicit their chances of claiming each 3 points, portion Gent person proved resilient this play and avoided decision successful regularisation clip earlier their caller penalty-shootout setback, making a gully a plausible outcome.
 

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