Dragons out to prove title credentials against Braga’s top form | OneFootball

FC Porto faces one of the most demanding challenges of the season today. It is the ideal opportunity for Francesco Farioli's team to assert itself in a theoretically higher-level competitive context, after having experienced all three possible outcomes in three similar-profile matches.

Up against the Dragons is Sp. Braga, the team that has come closest to the competitive level of the “big three” over the last two decades and is currently enjoying its best moment of the season under Carlos Vicens, with four consecutive wins in all competitions. The “tie-breaker” that FC Porto seeks comes after their victory at Alvalade against Sporting (2-1), the draw with Benfica (0-0) at Estádio do Dragão—which ended Porto’s run of nine consecutive wins—and the defeat away to Nottingham Forest (0-2) in the last round of the Europa League.

Clarification about the goals

This is the overall picture of a set of matches that highlights a clear difference in goals scored and conceded by the blue and whites in these duels… and in the other 10 matches. Against that trio, FC Porto scored only two goals—both in the classic against Sporting—and conceded three. By contrast, in the remaining matches, the balance tilts decisively in their favor: 26 goals scored and only two conceded.

Today, in front of an Estádio do Dragão that promises to be sold out once again, the blue and whites aim to reward their fans in what will be the only match they play at home during the current cycle of six games between international breaks.

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