Rio Ave did not start well this season with the defeat against Vizela at home, then lost by 3-0 against Sporting in Estadio Jose de Alvalade but after that the team started to improve their performance and is getting better from game to game. They are right now in their best moment after beating the champion in title FC Porto at home by clear 3-1 and in the last game drew against Chaves scoring the equalizer goal in the 90th+ minutes. But, this game will be completely different as they will face the 2nd team in Portugal that presses better with 2 strong strikers - Vitinha and the current topscorer of the league Simon Banza. I am pretty sure that the coach Luis Freire will try the same strategy that he used against Porto - pressing very high in the pitch trying to condition the defenders of Braga but the technical quality of Braga's defenders are superior than Porto's defenders, and then trying to explore the space behind the defense with the pace of Fabio Ronaldo and Yakubu Aziz. I don't think it will work against Braga, as they are better technically and are much faster than the defense of Porto due to the pace of Vitor Tormena, Fabiano, Niakate and Sequeira (the slowest of the 4). The centre-back of Rio Ave, Renato Pantalon is in my opinion of the weakest centre-backs of the league, he has a lot of problems with the ball and is very slow and Vitinha will create a lot of problems to him.

Probable line-up: Jhonatan; Costinha - Renato Pantalon - Aderlan Santos - Miguel Nobrega - Pedro Amaral; Amine - Guga - Joca; Fabio Ronaldo and Yakubu Aziz.

Braga are doing a suberb season so far and in the news there are a lot of pressure to them with a lot of people saying that this year they will fight until the end for the title and I do believe that it will happen. They are right now in the 3rd position and in case of win they jump to the 2nd position with only 2 points behind Benfica. They come from a very good sequence of results, especially in the last week where they won the Derby do Minho against Vitoria Guimaraes at home for 1-0 with the winning goal being scored in the last minute by Tormena after Ricardo Horta wasted a penalty in the 60th minute. In Thursday they beat Malmo as away by clear 2-0 where the coach rotated the centre-backs and the striker Banza and the team gave a very good response. The main strength of Braga are the 2 strikers Vitinha and Banza. They completement each other very well and create many problems to every defense from the league. The must win is on Braga as they want to recover the 2nd position after Porto's victory against Chaves and for that they really need to win this game against a team that has no pressure after 2 good results especially after beating the champion Porto.

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

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