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Friday, 09/10/2026 at 21:15

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Match preview · Liga Portugal

Sporting Braga – Sporting

Sporting Braga 6th in Liga Portugal Home 0.94 projected goals by the model
Sporting 3rd in Liga Portugal Away 1.04 projected goals by the model

Model updated 3 October, 21:30 Best odds updated 1 October, 10:23

What the model expects

expected goals
0.94 1.04
Sporting Braga Sporting
Sporting Braga
29%
Draw
36%
Sporting
35%
The odds each result is fair at by the model's chance of it, with no margin in it
Sporting Braga Draw Sporting
Fair odds 3.41 2.79 2.87
Total goals
1.98
Over 2.5 goals
32%
Both teams to score
45%
Data coverage · full

Both teams have the full 20-match model window available.

Model vs market

The model sees an edge in 4 outcomes.

  • Sporting Braga

    Model
    29.4%
    Market, margin removed
    28.5%
    Probability gap
    +0.9 pp
    Edge
    −4.6%
    Fair odds
    3.41
    Market odds
    3.25 Bet365
    Price at which a 5% edge begins
    3.58
    Bookmaker margin
    8.1%
  • Draw

    Model
    35.8%
    Market, margin removed
    28.5%
    Probability gap
    +7.4 pp
    Edge
    +16.5%
    Fair odds
    2.79
    Market odds
    3.25 Bet365
    Price at which a 5% edge begins
    2.93
    Bookmaker margin
    8.1%
  • Sporting

    Model
    34.8%
    Market, margin removed
    43.0%
    Probability gap
    −8.2 pp
    Edge
    −25.2%
    Fair odds
    2.87
    Market odds
    2.15 Bet365
    Price at which a 5% edge begins
    3.02
    Bookmaker margin
    8.1%
Markets 4 / 9

Match result

Draw model 35.8% · book 28.5% (no margin) +16.5% 3.25 fair 2.79
Great value

No measured model skill on this market (-1.04%).

Goals

Under 1.5 goals model 36.9% · book 26.9% (no margin) +29.1% 3.50 fair 2.71
Great value

No measured model skill on this market (-0.01%).

Under 2.5 goals model 68.3% · book 51.3% (no margin) +26.4% 1.85 fair 1.46
Great value

No measured model skill on this market (-0.89%).

Both teams to score

Both teams not to score model 54.7% · book 46.7% (no margin) +9.4% 2.00 fair 1.83
Worth playing

No measured model skill on this market (-0.43%).

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Skill is what a backtest measured each market at, over 7 competitions to 17/08/2026. Across every market at once it is +2.50%. Markets measured at nothing are ranked last and never recommended. How that is measured →

The model's case

Why the model can't separate them

35% Sporting to win

Attack
2nd vs 3rd
Sporting attack v Sporting Braga defence
Defence
2nd vs 12th
Sporting defence v Sporting Braga attack
Recent xG form
+1.16 vs +0.60
xGD per match, last 6
Projected goals
0.94 – 1.04
Sporting Braga v Sporting
How the model arrived here →

Team comparison

Season to date, per match, with each club's placing in the competition. The last row is the last 6 matches.

Overview: Sporting Braga and Sporting compared, each figure with where it places in the competition.
Reading Sporting Braga Sporting
xG / match 1.25 · 9th (better) 2.01 · 3rd
xGA / match (better) 0.65 · 1st 0.79 · 5th
xGD / match +0.60 · 6th (better) +1.22 · 3rd
xPts / match 1.83 · 6th (better) 2.17 · 3rd
Last 6 xGD / match +0.60 (better) +1.16

The scorelines behind the model's numbers

No exact score is especially likely. The 3 most probable scorelines account for 44% of the model's distribution.

Sporting Braga clean sheet
32%
Sporting Braga 2+ goals
24%
Under 2.5 goals
68%
Both teams to score: no
55%

Most likely scorelines

1:1
18.0%
0:0
13.7%
0:1
12.2%
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Model details

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the last 20 matches, recency weighted (a match 107 days old counts half)
Sporting Braga sample
20 matches
Sporting sample
20 matches
Home xG sample · Sporting Braga
2 matches
Away xG sample · Sporting
3 matches
Computed
Saturday, 03/10/2026 at 21:30
Odds updated
2 days ago · over a day old

Limitations

The model reads expected goals and nothing else. It does not know the lineups, who is injured or suspended, what either side has to play for, the weather, or how congested the schedule around this match is.