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Commentary

2¹ A free-kick from KONSA raced wide. 6¹ POPE was able to block a tame shot from BARELLA. 9¹ A lovely effort from RAFAEL LEÃO scraped the upright. 11¹ An outswinging corner was forced into the arms of DIOGO COSTA by COMAN. 14¹ GOAL!! Unlucky SAKA hit the upright before RAFAEL LEÃO poked the ball into the net as KONSA failed to clear. (1-0 Sporting Braga) 15¹ DAVID's shot was well saved by the Sporting Braga 'keeper. 23¹ RAFAEL LEÃO scuffed a simple chance. 26¹ ZINCHENKO beat KJÆR and whacked the ball to SAKA who hit his shot wide. 27¹ GOAL!! On the right wing COMAN collected a defender's clearance and hit it across the goalmouth for ABRAHAM to fire it into the back of the net. (1-1) 31¹ POPE saved a glorious shot from RAFAEL LEÃO. 36¹ SAKA clipped the ball through a ruck of players but the Aston Villa 'keeper was a match for it as he dived to his right. 38¹ The 'keeper managed to claw away a fierce shot. 39¹ GOAL!! A MÆHLE run down the middle resulted in a low cross for KONSA to volley in. (2-1 Aston Villa) 43¹ A header by RAFAEL LEÃO at the near post was comfortably collected by the Aston Villa 'keeper. 45¹ GOAL!! A Sporting Braga counter-attack allowed ZINCHENKO to setup RAFAEL LEÃO with an easy goal. (2-2) 11² RAFAEL LEÃO rifled an easy chance past the near post. 25² A fine ball from DIMARCO on the left bobbled toward RAFAEL LEÃO who mishit his shot inches over. 29² A brilliant strike from RAFAEL LEÃO was dealt with by a useful stop from the 'keeper. 34² A shot from SAKA was smothered by POPE. 35² The motionless 'keeper was all agog as a backpass from MINGS fell just wide. 40² A thirty yard drive from RAFAEL LEÃO caused the Aston Villa 'keeper no problem. 46² A shot from ABRAHAM was kicked off the line by ROMERO.

Sporting Braga   League position: 10 Home league form: XLWL Overall league form: XLWOLWWW Formation: 4-2-3-1

Line-ups (c)DIOGO Meireles COSTA 6  1 7  Nick POPE(c) Denzel DUMFRIES 7½ 2 7  Ezri KONSA Federico DIMARCO 8½ 3 6  Joakim MÆHLE Oleksandr ZINCHENKO 7  4 7  Pierre-Emile HØJBJERG Matthijs DE LIGT 6½ 5 7  Fikayo TOMORI Cristian ROMERO 7  6 6½ Tyrone MINGS (p)Bukayo SAKA 7½ 7 6  Jeppe KJÆR BRUNO GUIMARÃES Rodriguez 6  8 7  Kingsley COMAN RODRYGO Silva 6½ 9 7  Tammy ABRAHAM(p) (f)Nicolò BARELLA 6½ 10 6  JOÃO FÉLIX Sequeira(f) RAFAEL Alexandre LEÃO 7  11 6½ Jonathan DAVID Rikki Faulkner Manager Óscar PEREA    12    Lukas NMECHA Agustín RUBERTO    13    Mat RYAN DEIVID WASHINGTON de Souza    14    FÁBIO Daniel SILVA Isak HANSEN-AARØEN    15 6  Weston McKENNIE ROGER Fernandes    16    Dwight McNEIL

Aston Villa   League position: 11 Away league form: LLXW Overall league form: LXLWLWXW Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Sporting Braga 2 Aston Villa 2 (Half-time: 2-2, Attendance: 52,975, Stadium: AXA, Referee: Kim Nielsen 7½) Rafael Leão 14¹, Rafael Leão 45¹ Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession Abraham 27¹, Konsa 39¹   MæhleóMcKennie 31²         3 6 19 9 12 10 10 5 9 6 19 11 8 3 49% 51% ¶ Man of the match: Federico Dimarco ¶