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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2020/21 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estádio Municipal de Braga - Braga Thursday 26 November 2020 18.55CET (17.55 local time) SC Braga Group G - Matchday 4 Leicester City FC Last updated 26/02/2021 12:07CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Match officials 18 Legend 20 1 SC Braga - Leicester City FC Thursday 26 November 2020 - 18.55CET (17.55 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Iheanacho 21, 48, 05/11/2020 GS Leicester City FC - SC Braga 4-0 Leicester Praet 67, Maddison 78 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SC Braga 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 4 Leicester City FC 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 SC Braga - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers André Horta 6, Paulinho 65, SC Braga - Wolverhampton 28/11/2019 GS 3-3 Braga Fransérgio 79; Wanderers FC Jiménez 14, Doherty 34, Traoré 35 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - 19/09/2019 GS 0-1 Wolverhampton Ricardo Horta 71 SC Braga UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Alan 49 (P); Van SC Braga - Manchester United 07/11/2012 GS 1-3 Braga Persie 80, Rooney 84 FC (P), Hernández 90+2 Manchester United FC - SC Hernández 25, 75, J. 23/10/2012 GS 3-2 Manchester Braga Evans 62; Alan 2, 20 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 30/11/2011 GS SC Braga - Birmingham City FC 1-0 Braga Davies 51 (og) King 71; Hélder 15/09/2011 GS Birmingham City FC - SC Braga 1-3 Birmingham Barbosa 6, 88, Lima 59 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-0 17/03/2011 R16 Liverpool FC - SC Braga Liverpool agg: 0-1 10/03/2011 R16 SC Braga - Liverpool FC 1-0 Braga Alan 18 (P) UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 23/11/2010 GS SC Braga - Arsenal FC 2-0 Braga Matheus 83, 90+3 2 SC Braga - Leicester City FC Thursday 26 November 2020 - 18.55CET (17.55 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga UEFA Champions League Fàbregas 9 (P), 53, Arshavin 30, 15/09/2010 GS Arsenal FC - SC Braga 6-0 London Chamakh 34, Vela 69, 84 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Aguiar 8, Renteria 46, 23/10/2008 GS SC Braga - Portsmouth FC 3-0 Braga Alan 87 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 25/10/2007 GS Bolton Wanderers FC - SC Braga 1-1 Bolton Diouf 66; Jailson 87 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Berbatov 28, 42, 3-2 Malbranque 76; 14/03/2007 R16 Tottenham Hotspur - SC Braga London agg: 6-4 Huddlestone 24 (og), Andrade 61 Paulo Jorge 76, Zé 08/03/2007 R16 SC Braga - Tottenham Hotspur 2-3 Braga Carlos 81; Keane 57, 90+2, Malbranque 72 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Stevens 11, Hughton 6-0 03/10/1984 R1 Tottenham Hotspur - SC Braga London 16, Crooks 27, 58, 83, agg: 9-0 Falco 66 Falco 32, 42, Galvin 19/09/1984 R1 SC Braga - Tottenham Hotspur 0-3 Braga 44 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 1-0 25/08/1982 PR SC Braga - Swansea City AFC Braga Marustik 88 (og) agg: 1-3 Charles 38, 86, 17/08/1982 PR Swansea City AFC - SC Braga 3-0 Swansea Hadžiabdić 63 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers West Bromwich Albion FC - SC 1-0 01/11/1978 R2 West Bromwich Brown 46 Braga agg: 3-0 SC Braga - West Bromwich 18/10/1978 R2 0-2 Braga Regis 52, 54 Albion FC Leicester City FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country 3 SC Braga - Leicester City FC Thursday 26 November 2020 - 18.55CET (17.55 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers André Silva 6, 64 (P), 07/12/2016 GS FC Porto - Leicester City FC 5-0 Porto Corona 26, Brahimi 44, Diogo Jota 77 27/09/2016 GS Leicester City FC - FC Porto 1-0 Leicester Slimani 25 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SC Braga 10 5 1 4 11 2 2 7 0 0 0 0 21 7 3 11 23 42 Leicester City FC 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 5 5 4 SC Braga - Leicester City FC Thursday 26 November 2020 - 18.55CET (17.55 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga Match background Braga will be eager to join Leicester City at the top of UEFA Europa League Group G after suffering a heavy Matchday 3 defeat away to the competition debutants, who are closing in on the knockout phase. • Leicester are enjoying their first taste of UEFA Europa League football, their opening wins against Zorya Luhansk (3- 0 h) and AEK Athens (2-1 a) supplemented by a resounding 4-0 success at home to Braga in which Kelechi Iheanacho struck twice before further goals from Dennis Praet and James Maddison completed the club's biggest European victory. • Leicester's maximum haul has them three points above Braga and six better off than third-placed AEK Athens. Previous meetings • Braga's record in 21 matches against English opposition is now W7 D3 L11. Five of those victories have come in Portugal, four in a row preceding a 3-1 defeat by Manchester United in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage. Last season they were held 3-3 at the Estádio Municipal by Wolves on UEFA Europa League Matchday 5 with André Horta, Paulinho and Fransérgio all on the scoresheet. • Leicester's only previous visit to Portugal brought about their heaviest European defeat, 5-0 against Porto on Matchday 6 of the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League, although they went into that fixture, in which Harvey Barnes made his club debut, having already qualified for the knockout phase as group winners. Form guide Braga • Braga's 16th European qualification in the last 17 years was achieved with a third-placed finish in the 2019/20 Portuguese Liga, a season in which they also topped their UEFA Europa League group undefeated ahead of Wolves, Slovan Bratislava and Beşiktaş before losing out to Rangers in the round of 32 (2-3 a, 0-1 h). • The 2010/11 runners-up are competing in the UEFA Europa League group stage for the sixth time. They have gone through to the knockout phase in four of their previous five campaigns, winning their group on three occasions, including the last two. • Braga were unbeaten home and away in 13 European matches (W9 D4) until they lost twice to Rangers last spring, the home defeat one of only two in their last 14 continental fixtures at the Estádio Municipal (W9 D3). In the UEFA Europa League group stage their record at home is W10 D3 L3, that tenth victory coming on Matchday 1 when they beat AEK 3-0. Leicester • Leicester finished fifth in the 2019/20 Premier League to qualify for a first appearance in the UEFA Europa League and direct entry to the group stage. • This is only the club's fifth European campaign. Their most successful was the most recent, in 2016/17, when, as champions of England, they made their debut appearance in the UEFA Champions League, topped their group and went on to reach the quarter-finals – the best performance by any English club in the competition that season – where they lost to Atlético de Madrid. • Leicester's 2-1 win in Athens on Matchday 2 ended a run of three successive European away defeats. They have won only three of their ten away fixtures in UEFA competition, the best of them 3-0 at Club Brugge on their UEFA Champions League debut four seasons ago. Links and trivia • Youri Tielemans' next appearance in UEFA club competition will be his 50th. The Belgian international is the most experienced European campaigner in the Leicester squad. • Leicester right-back Ricardo, who has been out of action since March with a knee ligament injury, began his career with Braga's local rivals Vitória SC, lifting the Portuguese Cup with the club in his debut season, 2012/13, after scoring the winner in the final against a Benfica side whose consolation goal in a 2-1 defeat was scored by current Braga player Nicolás Gaitán. • Ricardo later moved to Porto, with whom he won the 2017/18 Liga before joining Leicester. Braga's Galeno was his team-mate at the Estádio do Dragão. • Gaitán was an Atlético player in 2016/17 but remained on the bench as an unused substitute in both legs of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final against Leicester. • Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers has been successful in his two previous UEFA Europa League group campaigns, leading Liverpool to first place ahead of Anji, Young Boys and Udinese in 2012/13 and Celtic to a runners- up spot behind Salzburg but above RB Leipzig and Rosenborg in 2018/19.