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Liga Portugal11/01/2026, 08:30 PM

Sporting Braga – Famalicão3 : 0

Why the model thinks so

Sporting Braga
1.50
Total xG
2.44
Famalicão
0.94
Expected goals from our model, before kickoff

How the model gets there: each factor adds goals to or takes goals from one team's expected goals.

FactorSporting BragaFamalicão
Defensive strength (1 conceded vs 1.4 league avg)−0.39
4 of last 5 matches with 0-1 goals (0.8 goals/match)−0.31
Declining form (0.8 vs 1.8 season average)−0.31
Defensive strength (1 conceded vs 1.3 league avg)−0.29
3 of last 5 matches with 2+ goals (2.4 goals/match)+0.28
Rising form (2.4 vs 1.5 season average)+0.28
Small sample (5 matches), regression to mean+0.27
Small sample (4 matches), regression to mean+0.12
Pau Víctor on the bench (4 goals, 1 assists)
47% of goal output missing (only 42% available)

Key factors

  • Tactics: Sporting Braga average 59.2% possession and 16.2 shots per game in their last 5 matches
  • Head-to-head: Sporting Braga are unbeaten in 4 meetings with Famalicão (1 win, 3 draws)
  • xG: Famalicão generated 0.95 xG per game across 5 matches with xG data, but scored 2.4 goals per game

Risks

  • Away: Famalicão score 2.2 goals per game away in the league this season while conceding 0.8 per game
  • Form: Sporting Braga have lost 4 of their last 5 matches

All probabilities

Result
Sporting Braga49%
Draw29%
Famalicão22%
Double chance
Sporting Braga or draw78%
Famalicão or draw51%
No draw71%
Goals
Over 1.572%
Under 1.528%
Over 2.544%
Under 2.556%
Over 3.523%
Under 3.577%
Both teams score
Yes49%
No51%

xG score

1:1
From xG 1.50 : 0.94, rounded up only from .914% probability

Other likely scores

1:0
12%
0:0
10%
2:0
10%
2:1
9%
3:0
Final score

The Lab

Patterns our system found in the data.

  1. Sporting Braga: first goal in 7 of 10 games (70%)
  2. Sporting Braga: 4 of 11 goals scored by substitutes (last 12 games)
  3. Famalicão: 5 goals from minute 80 onwards in 11 games. Against Rio Ave: 3 goals (80', 85', 90+5')
  4. Sporting Braga with Vítor Carvalho starting: 1.5 goals/game, without him: 1 (20/8 games, last 30)
  5. Famalicão: 5 of 17 goals scored by substitutes (last 12 games)

Lineups

Sporting Braga 4-2-3-1 · Famalicão 4-2-3-1

Sporting Braga
  • 31 B. Parise Fontes
  • 2 V. Gómez Perea
  • 37 L. Barišić
  • 22 S. Barcia Laranxeira
  • 7 D. Martins Travassos
  • 6 V. Carvalho Vieira
  • 8 J. Iria Santos Moutinho
  • 20 M. Dorgeles
  • 21 R. Horta
  • 77 G. Martínez Aguilera
  • 9 F. Navarro Aliaga
Famalicão
  • 25 L. Carević
  • 17 R. Pinheiro Ferreira
  • 15 V. Rofino Gordo
  • 3 L. Realpe Montaño
  • 2 G. García dos Santos
  • 6 T. van de Looi
  • 14 M. De Amorim
  • 18 R. Beney
  • 10 P. Costa Santos
  • 7 M. Lopes Moura
  • 70 G. Koutsias
Substitutes
  • 44 A. Bajrami
  • 19 J. Older Wind
  • 23 D. Huseinbasic
  • 17 J. Milošević
  • 14 G. Lagerbielke
  • 29 G. Baptiste
  • 10 Pau Victor
  • 50 D. Oliveira Rodrigues
  • 12 T. Magalhães Sá
  • 34 D. Tıknaz
  • 11 G. Silva Vieira
  • 4 F. van Breemen
  • 24 M. Jangeal
  • 19 P. Valente Moreira
  • 1 I. Zlobin
  • 8 M. Peña Ocaña
  • 9 U. Abubakar
  • 23 G. Bastião Dias
  • 28 P. Bondo Francisco
  • 30 V. Serafimović
  • 11 Ó. Aranda Subiela
  • 33 P. Salas
  • 72 J. Gomes Correia

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