Vitoria Setubal vs Braga Predictions

Vitoria Setubal played out their third goalless draw of the new season away at newly-promoted Gil Vicente last time out, while Friday’s visitors Braga were hammered 4-0 by title-chasing Benfica.

All of the stats suggest that Braga will win on Friday but there are unlikely to be many goals in the game and the visitors look good for a clean sheet.

Braga have won their last five matches against Vitoria Setubal home and away and the last three encounters between the pair have ended in a win to nil and all arrived away from home. Two of Braga’s last three trips to Vitoria Setubal have ended in 1-0 wins and it was a solitary first-half strike from Murilo that saw the visitors claim all three points back in March when the pair last locked horns.

The form of both teams in the early stages of the new season makes an away win seem highly likely on Friday, as Vitoria Setubal are without a win in their last four matches and Braga have won four of their last six matches in all competitions. Vitoria Setubal haven’t scored in any of their last four matches and Braga have only failed to score in one of their last six matches and that was against Benfica, which is why we have backed a narrow 1-0 win for the visitors this Friday.

Each of Vitoria Setubals’s last six matches have failed to see both teams score, just another reason why we don’t believe both teams will score on Friday and that adds weight to our prediction of a 1-0 win for Braga. The visitors are unbeaten in their last two away games, claiming a 2-1 win in Moscow and drawing 1-1 with Gil Vicente, another reason why we’re expecting a close game and believe one goal will be enough to claim all three points.

We’re confident that Braga will win on Friday and have predicted a final scoreline of 1-0. The visitors head into the game as the form favourites, while their hosts have failed to score in each of their opening four league games of the new season and have conceded an average of one goal per game. Braga are the better team and should pick up all three points but we’re expecting a tight and tense affair on Friday.