Porto will be coming into this game having won their past three Primeira Liga fixtures and sit in third place. The Dragons, however, will be eager to close the gap on Sporting CP and Benfica following Saturday's match and to keep themselves firmly within the title race.
Dumped out of the Europa League by Borussia Dortmund, the Portuguese powerhouse now only have domestic football to focus on and their legions of fans will hope that the Europa League failure - which came following disappointment in the Champions League - will spur them on to finally break Benfica's stranglehold over the Primeira Liga title.
Earlier this week, Porto successfully overpowered Gil Vicente 2-0 in the Taca de Portugal which has shown that the team have indeed responded well so far after crashing out of European competition.
Sporting Braga, on the other hand, have avoided defeat in their past quintet of Primeira Liga fixtures, but will be coming into this game having drawn their last two games. Still, the hosts are in a comfortable position to secure fourth place for yet another season (after finishing in this same spot last term) and Europa League football as a result, but in all honesty, they do not look likely to break into the top three this season.
However, a bad run of form could see them slip down the table. As such, with just two months remaining in the 2015/2016 Primeira Liga, the Archbishops will want to make sure that they do not allow Rio Ave or Arouca to somehow manage to catch them. As any football fan is well aware, it is not unheard of for a team to start well behind another and, thanks to a run of good results (coupled with poor ones for the leading team) catch up and overtake those who had once enjoyed a massive lead.
The reverse fixture earlier this season concluded as a dull scoreless stalemate, and fans of the Archbishops and the Dragons will be hoping to see more fireworks this time around. Although the hosts have beaten their visitors on their home turf before - in a Taca de Portugal match back in November 2012 - Sporting Braga have not managed to get the better of Porto visitors in the Primeira Liga since September 19, 2009, when they edged them out 1-0.
Which channel is broadcasting Sporting Braga vs Porto on TV or Online?
- In the USA at 15.30 EST on: NGSN USA, Univision Deportes USA, fuboTV, Premium Sports Broadband, Sport TV Americas
- In Portugal at 20.30 WET on: Sport TV5, Sport TV1
- In the UK at 20.30 GMT on: ESPN UK / HD
- In Canada at 15.30 ET on: Premium Sports Canada, Sport TV Americas
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