[League Cup Final] Braga vs Porto

 Braga vs Porto 

13/04 7:45pm

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These two teams face each other twice in less than one week, and this game will give the chance of get the first trophy of the season for one of them.

The game will have place at Coimbra, a neutral Stadium.

Braga is aiming for a trophy on the last few years, since they assumed themselves as the 3rd biggest team in Portugal, on other side is Porto, a club that never gave importance to this Cup, but this year they need it, they´re out of the Portuguese Cup and out of European Competitions.

It will be a well disputed game, Porto will make the usual changes, Fabiano will play on Helton´s place and not much more than that. Maicon is injured, so Mangala will return to his place and therefore, is expected a team like :

Fabiano, Mangala, Otamendi, Alex Sandro, Danilo, Moutinho, Lucho, Fernando, James Rodriguez, Jackson Martinez and Defour.

The place of Defour is the only doubt we have, because Porto need a wing and Vitor Pereira should place there Atsu or even the rising star Kelvin to have more crosses to the striker Jackson, who is without scoring for sometime now. but the coach do not like many changes and if is not Defour it´s gonna be Izmaylov to guarantee the ball possession of more than 60%.

On Braga side, they have many solutions on the attack, I believe they can relegate Joao Pedro to the bench and use Carlão today. They will try to use a different strategy and it will pass through have a striker instead of a mobile attack as last weekend.

Peseiro needs this trophy to achieve a stress relief from the pressure he has to get the 3rd place on the championship, so, is expected to see him try something new on this game.

Players like Ruben Micael , Ruben Amorim and Douglao that are coming from injury and their form is unknown, are looking for a space on this game, which I think only Micael can have it, coming from the bench.

Last round of this Cup, Braga sent home Benfica on penaltis after a draw 0-0, which refrain big overs on this game.

I could say this is the game of the season for both teams and it will be not far from the truth, because the game where Porto will probably discuss the championship will be only early on May and until now this is the only trophy achievable for both teams.

Porto is a superior team and I believe that experience and quality will appear on a death match, even coming late in the game as last weekend. Due the belief of no one want to let thing happens in penalties, yes, this cup does not has extra time, we should expect efforts to guarantee a good advantage on the end of the game.

Highest Scoring Half - 2nd  @2 Bet365  5/10

Porto -0.75 @1.8 Betdaq 5/10