FC Arouca are doing a good season so far, much better than in the last season where they started with some bad results. Now they prepared better the season and closed the squad earlier than in 2021/2022 and all players started the trainings at the same time. But, they keep having the same defensive problems as before, they already conceded 5 goals in 3 games. They have the comfort of having already 6 points, and due to that will take more risks than if they had fewer points and will try to attack and to win the game since the beginning. The coach Armando Evangelista is a very good coach that tries do win every game even against Porto, Sporting and Benfica as away. Arouca will have some important absencecs for this game, the centre-backs Galovic and Sema Velazquez are still injured and cannot play this game, and Tiago Esgaio is loaned by Braga and due to that will miss the game - he played 90 mins on every official match of Arouca in the current season. They always try to build from the defenders and they commit many mistakes when are pressed and Braga are now probably the 2nd best team in Portugal in terms of pressing due to the high intensity of their strikers Banza and Vitinha.

Probable line-up: De Arruabarrena; Milovanov - Opoku - Basso - Mateus Quaresma; David Simao - Uri Busquets - Alan Ruiz; Bukia - Arsenio and Rafa Mujica.

Sporting Braga are doing an amazing season so far and are surprising everyone. The new coach Artur Jorge has all the merit on Braga's performance and the way they are playing recently as he changed the system from a 3-4-3 to a 4-4-2 with 2 strikers that wear out any defense. In the first match at home they drew 3-3 against Sporting CP, and then beat Famalicao by 3-0 and on the last game at home destroyed the weak Maritimo by 5-0 and could have scored more goals. The strikers Vitinha and Banza are at the moment the 2nd best duo of strikers in Portugal only after Taremi and Evanilson from the champion in title FC Porto. They are so strong phisically and have the ability to associate with the colleagues. For this game I expect them pressing a lot Arouca's defenders mainly the centre-backs Basso and Opoku and I am pretty sure that they will recover a lot of balls in the last third of the pitch and create many important chances to score. Today after Sporting's defeat Braga have an huge chance to get away from them if they win today.

Probable line-up: Matheus; Fabiano - Niakate - Tormena - Sequeira; Al Musrati - Andre Horta - Iuri Medeiros - Ricardo Horta; Simon Banza and Vitinha.

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