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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estádio Municipal de Braga - Braga Thursday 7 November 2019 21.00CET (20.00 local time) SC Braga Group K - Matchday 4 Beşiktaş JK Last updated 28/02/2020 16:01CET 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 19 1 SC Braga - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 7 November 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Umut Nayir 71; 24/10/2019 GS Beşiktaş JK - SC Braga 1-2 Istanbul Ricardo Horta 38, Wilson Eduardo 80 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 0-1 23/02/2012 R32 Beşiktaş JK - SC Braga Istanbul Lima 25 agg: 2-1 14/02/2012 R32 SC Braga - Beşiktaş JK 0-2 Braga Sivok 37, Simão 58 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SC Braga 1 0 0 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0 1 3 3 Beşiktaş JK 2 0 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1 0 2 3 3 SC Braga - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Višća 10, Emre 07/12/2017 GS İstanbul Başakşehir - SC Braga 2-1 Istanbul Belözoğlu 77 (P); Raúl Silva 55 Ahmed Hassan 26, 28/09/2017 GS SC Braga - İstanbul Başakşehir 2-1 Braga Fransérgio 89; Emre Belözoğlu 28 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Velázquez 34, Wilson Eduardo 45+1, 03/11/2016 GS SC Braga - Konyaspor 3-1 Braga Ricardo Horta 90+7; Rangelov 30 Milošević 9; Ahmed 20/10/2016 GS Konyaspor - SC Braga 1-1 Konya Hassan 55 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Ahmed Hassan 11, Josué 69 (P), 4-1 17/03/2016 R16 SC Braga - Fenerbahçe SK Braga Stoiljković 74, Rafa agg: 4-2 Silva 83; Alper Potuk 45+3 10/03/2016 R16 Fenerbahçe SK - SC Braga 1-0 Istanbul Mehmet Topal 82 2 SC Braga - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 7 November 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Mossoró 32; Burak 05/12/2012 GS SC Braga - Galatasaray AŞ 1-2 Braga Yılmaz 58, Aydın Yılmaz 78 Rúben Micael 27, 02/10/2012 GS Galatasaray AŞ - SC Braga 0-2 Istanbul Alan 90+4 UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 3-0 Matheus 45, Linz 57, 26/07/2008 R3 SC Braga - Sivasspor Braga agg: 5-0 Aguiar 70 (P) 20/07/2008 R3 Sivasspor - SC Braga 0-2 Sivas Linz 45+1, Moisés 78 Beşiktaş JK - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 21/11/2017 GS Beşiktaş JK - FC Porto 1-1 Istanbul Talisca 41; Felipe 29 D. Tošić 21 (og); 13/09/2017 GS FC Porto - Beşiktaş JK 1-3 Porto Talisca 13, Cenk Tosun 28, Babel 86 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Cenk Tosun 58, Quaresma 83 (P), 23/11/2016 GS Beşiktaş JK - SL Benfica 3-3 Istanbul Aboubakar 89; Gonçalo Guedes 10, Semedo 25, Fejsa 31 Cervi 12; Talisca 13/09/2016 GS SL Benfica - Beşiktaş JK 1-1 Lisbon 90+3 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Slimani 67, Ruiz 72, Sporting Clube de Portugal - 10/12/2015 GS 3-1 Lisbon Gutiérrez 78; Gomez Beşiktaş JK 58 Beşiktaş JK - Sporting Clube de Gökhan Töre 61; Ruiz 01/10/2015 GS 1-1 Istanbul Portugal 16 UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Falcao 36 (P); Nihat 04/11/2010 GS FC Porto - Beşiktaş JK 1-1 Porto Kahveci 62 Bobô 90+2; Falcao 21/10/2010 GS Beşiktaş JK - FC Porto 1-3 Istanbul 26, Hulk 59, 78 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Lucho González 44, 11/12/2007 GS FC Porto - Beşiktaş JK 2-0 Porto Quaresma 62 3 SC Braga - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 7 November 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga UEFA Champions League 03/10/2007 GS Beşiktaş JK - FC Porto 0-1 Istanbul Quaresma 90+2 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Saganowski 11; 14/12/2005 GS Vitória SC - Beşiktaş JK 1-3 Guimaraes İbrahim Toraman 7, 60, Youla 17 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SC Braga 6 4 0 2 7 4 1 2 0 0 0 0 13 8 1 4 22 12 Beşiktaş JK 7 0 3 4 7 3 2 2 0 0 0 0 14 3 5 6 18 21 4 SC Braga - Beşiktaş JK Thursday 7 November 2019 - 21.00CET (20.00 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga Match background Top plays bottom in Group K as Braga, on seven points, host a Beşiktaş side that have lost all of their opening three matches, the latest of them 1-2 in Istanbul against their Portuguese rivals, who won for the second time on the road thanks to goals from Ricardo Horta and Wilson Eduardo. • Braga also triumphed away to Wolves, 1-0 at Molineux, on Matchday 1 before drawing 2-2 at home to Slovan Bratislava. Beşiktaş, meanwhile, conceded two added-time goals in going down 4-2 at Slovan before suffering more late misfortune two weeks later in Istanbul as Wolves got the only goal of the game in the 93rd minute. Previous meetings • Though defeated by Braga last time out, Beşiktaş came out on top in the only other UEFA contest between the clubs, winning their 2011/12 UEFA Europa League round of 32 tie against the previous season's runners-up 2-1 on aggregate thanks to a 2-0 first-leg win in Portugal. • Braga's overall record against Turkish clubs is now W8 D1 L4, with four wins and two defeats in the six home fixtures, including victories in all of the last three, most recently 2-1 against an İstanbul Başakşehir side coached by current Beşiktaş boss Abdullah Avcı in the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League group stage. • While the Black Eagles have never beaten a Portuguese club at home in seven attempts (D3 L4), they have won three times in Portugal, the most memorable victory arguably coming on their most recent visit two seasons ago, when they opened their UEFA Champions League group stage campaign by triumphing 3-1 at Porto – a result that set them on the path to winning the group. Form guide Braga • Braga's 15th European qualification in the last 16 years was achieved with a fourth-placed finish in the 2018/19 Portuguese Liga, a season in which their European ambitions ended early with elimination on away goals by Zorya Luhansk in the UEFA Europa League third qualifying round. • Brøndby (4-2 a, 3-1 h) and Spartak Moskva (1-0 h, 2-1 a) were both overcome in this season's qualifying phase to take Braga into the group stage for the fifth time. They have made further progress on three of the previous four occasions, though their best season in the competition – and in Europe overall – came in 2010/11 when they crossed over in mid-campaign from the UEFA Champions League and knocked out, among others, Liverpool and Benfica before losing 1-0 in the Dublin final to domestic rivals Porto. • Braga are unbeaten in ten European games (W7 D3) and have won six out of seven this season. Their home record in the UEFA Europa League group stage is W8 D2 L3 and in the competition proper W13 D4 L5. Beşiktaş • Third in the 2018/19 Turkish Süper Lig, Beşiktaş's reward was direct access to the UEFA Europa League group stage; they also participated last season, failing to reach the round of 32. • This is the Istanbul club's sixth participation in the UEFA Europa League group stage, from which they have qualified three times but come up short on each of the last two occasions. Their best season in the competition came in 2016/17 when, after finishing third in their UEFA Champions League group, they went on to reach the quarter-finals, where they succumbed on penalties to Lyon. • Beşiktaş's 33 matches in the UEFA Europa League group stage have yielded 15 wins, eight draws and ten defeats. Outside Istanbul their record is W6 D5 L5, both of their previous away fixtures on Matchday 4 having finished 1-1. Links and trivia • Beşiktaş forward Abdoulay Diaby is on loan from Sporting CP, having been a regular Portuguese Liga participant for the Lisbon club last term. • Other Beşiktaş players to have played in Portugal are Rebocho (Benfica B, Moreirense), Tyler Boyd (Vitória SC, Tondela) and Douglas (Benfica). • Diaby was a team-mate of Braga's Claudemir at Club Brugge for two seasons; they won the Belgian title together in 2015/16. • Braga goalkeeper Eduardo spent 2012/13 on loan at Beşiktaş's local rivals İstanbul BB. • Braga's Ahmed Hassan and Beşiktaş's Mohamed Elneny play together for Egypt. • Beşiktaş duo Georges-Kévin N'Koudou and Burak Yılmaz have both scored European goals in wins against Braga for previous clubs, the former for Marseille in the 2015/16 UEFA Europa League group stage (1-0 h), the latter for Galatasaray in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage (2-1 a).