Braga vs AEK

[Dikefale11]

S.C. Braga vs AEK

Date - Thursday, 22nd October 2020

Venue - Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga, Portugal

Competition - Europa League

Round - Group Stage - Game 1

Time - 22:00 (Greece time)

[Original Sydney]

A win here would be a massive start for us, but at worst I’d take a draw.

Braga may not be a huge name in Portuguese football but they’re always up there in the league.

[Damianos]

We need a draw at least which would be a good result. Their squad worth is €100 so it will be a challenge

[Dikefale11]

A draw would be huge! Be great if we had L. Garcia available but hopefully Tankovic hits the ground running.

[Dikefale11]

Midfield looks very bare, Insua included but doubtful.

[Amorgos]

Reports of a 3-5-2 with Ansarifard & Oliveira up front

We need to really pick up our game after the rubbish dished against Atromitos & PAOK

[Reaper]

[Damianos]

Big underdogs, need to fire up! PAME!

[Dikefale11]

Pame AEK!

[Dikefale11]

1-0 Braga HT

Again we concede just before HT

Ref is a bit of a malaka, as is their captain who dives non stop, as is Oliveira as he misses the target from 10 yards out just before they score.

Up until there they had 1 chance, another cross that went just wide, up until then we had held them off well.

We had 1 great chance with Nelson sending the ball into the stratosphere.

No point in sitting back anymore, might as well throw Tankovic and Livaja on and try get something.

[Original Sydney]

Not a bad first half overall but copping a goal just before HT hurt. Oliveira should’ve buried his chance.

Let’s see what we got second half now.

[Amorgos]

We need more speed... our attack has really taken a back foot since the Wolfsburg game.

Our passing too, passing accuracy must be low.

We look more threatening in second half so far

[Dikefale11]

3-0 HT

Score line is a little flattering for them.

We didnt threaten enough as Amorgos said, up until we conceded we looked good defensively.

Tried more in the 2nd but mistakes cost us.

First game down, hopefully we learn from it. Need something vs Leicester next week or it will be very difficult to qualify.

[Original Sydney]

Livagia killed us both second half goals were his fault for losing the ball so cheaply. Don’t know what’s gotten into him this season he’s been very very poor.

We lacked spark going forward, Oliveira missed sitters and don’t know why he took off Karim.

Dont like our chances against Leicester and reality is if we don’t beat the Ukrainians twice we can forget about next round.

[Dikefale11]

I would say the contract definitely has some part to do with it, it's the only explanation I can think of.

If he didn't want to be here he would have requested a transfer already so it's not that.