UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Estádio Municipal de Braga - Braga Thursday 28 November 2019 18.55CET (17.55 local time) SC Braga Wolverhampton Group K - Matchday 5 Wanderers FC Last updated 13/08/2020 00:37CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 12 Match-by-match lineups 16 Match officials 19 Legend 21 1 SC Braga - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Thursday 28 November 2019 - 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 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - 19/09/2019 GS 0-1 Wolverhampton Ricardo Horta 71 SC Braga 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 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 SC Braga - Record versus clubs from opponents' country 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 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 2 SC Braga - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Thursday 28 November 2019 - 18.55CET (17.55 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga 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 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Bailey 3, Daley 46, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - 3-1 02/10/1974 R1 Wolverhampton Dougan 79; Cubillas FC Porto agg: 4-5 37 McAlle 3 (og), FC Porto - Wolverhampton Cubillas 37, Flávio 41, 18/09/1974 R1 4-1 Porto Wanderers FC Fernando Gomes 69; Bailey 63 3 SC Braga - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Thursday 28 November 2019 - 18.55CET (17.55 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - 2-1 Eastoe 27, McCalliog 03/10/1973 R1 Wolverhampton Os Belenenses agg: 4-1 72; Alfredo Murça 7 Os Belenenses - Wolverhampton Richards 19, Dougan 26/09/1973 R1 0-2 Lisbon Wanderers FC 54 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Leitão Da Silva 15; A. Académica de Coimbra - 1-4 29/09/1971 R1 Coimbra Dougan 23, 72, 90, Wolverhampton Wanderers FC agg: 1-7 McAlle 57 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC - McAlle 28, Richards 15/09/1971 R1 3-0 Wolverhampton A. Académica de Coimbra 62, Dougan 80 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA SC Braga 9 5 0 4 10 2 2 6 0 0 0 0 19 7 2 10 20 35 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC 4 3 0 1 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 7 5 0 2 15 8 4 SC Braga - Wolverhampton Wanderers FC Thursday 28 November 2019 - 18.55CET (17.55 local time) Match press kit Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga Match background The top two teams in Group K meet in northern Portugal knowing a draw will ensure the presence of both clubs in the round of 32, though Braga will want to complete the double over Wolverhampton Wanderers and therefore wrap up first place in the section. • Braga, who beat Wolves 1-0 at Molineux on Matchday 1, are unbeaten with ten points from their first four matches, a 2-2 draw at home to Slovan Bratislava preceding back-to-back wins against Beşiktaş (2-1 a, 3-1 h). Since that opening defeat, the English side have accumulated maximum points, added-time goals bringing 1-0 wins in Turkey and, last time out, at home to a Slovan side they defeated 2-1 in the Slovakian capital a fortnight earlier. • With Slovan on four points and Beşiktaş yet to get off the mark, Braga and Wolves are in such a commanding position that they will both go through not only with a draw but also, irrespective of the scoreline in Portugal, if the Slovakian champions fail to win in Istanbul. Previous meetings • The clubs' first European encounter went the way of the visitors as a 71st-minute breakaway goal from Ricardo Horta enabled Braga to take all three points in Wolverhampton on Matchday 1. • Braga's record in 19 matches against English opposition is now W7 D2 L10, with five wins and four losses in their nine home fixtures. A 1-3 defeat against Manchester United in the 2012/13 UEFA Champions League group stage – the last time that they hosted a Premier League club – followed four successive victories without conceding a goal against English visitors. • The home game against Braga was Wolves' seventh UEFA encounter with Portuguese opposition, victories having been recorded in five of the previous six, including two out of three in Portugal, where they last played back in September 1974, losing 4-1 to Porto in the first round of the UEFA Cup 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 unusually 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 (1-0 h, 0-0 a) and Benfica before losing 1-0 in the Dublin final to domestic rivals Porto. • Braga are unbeaten in 11 European matches (W8 D3) and have won seven out of eight this season. They are also on a run of seven European home games without defeat, since Ludogorets beat them 2-0 on Matchday 3 of the 2017/18 UEFA Europa League – the only loss in their last 11 continental fixtures at the Estádio Municipal (W8 D2). Wolves • In their first season after promotion to the Premier League, Wolves finished seventh in 2018/19 to qualify for European competition for the first time since they lost in the 1980/81 UEFA Cup first round to PSV Eindhoven. • The West Midlanders' best European experience by some distance came in the inaugural UEFA Cup of 1971/72, when they went all the way to the final before losing 3-2 on aggregate to English rivals Tottenham Hotspur. • Wolves have won all five of their European away fixtures this season – against Crusaders (4-1), Pyunik (4-0) and Torino (3-2) in the qualifying phase and at Beşiktaş and Slovan in the group stage. They were also unbeaten away from home in the 1971/72 UEFA Cup (W3 D3). Links and trivia • In addition to coach Nuno Espírito Santo, there are seven Portuguese players in Wolves' squad – Rui Patrício, Rúben Neves, João Moutinho, Diogo Jota, Rúben Vinagre, Pedro Neto and Bruno Jordão, the latter two products of Braga's youth academy.