Braga Facing Liverpool in Europa League Match

Thursday, March 10th, 2011 at 9:35 am , filed under UEFA Euro by Andrew Jordan

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The Europa League football match between Braga and Liverpool kicks off at 18:00 PM GMT on 10th March 2011 at Estadio AXA, Portugal.

Braga is currently taking 6th spot in the Portuguese Liga having accumulated 31 points from 22 games in the league. Leaders, FC Porto has twice the number of points with 62 over their name in the league standings. In the most recent game, they have won against Arsenal with 2-0.

Braga already taken part in the Champions League, but after concluding third in their groups, the team got sent down to Europa League. Braga won two and lost one of the three home games in Champions League. The hosts have four victories, four losses and two draws from their last ten games in all competitions.

Braga has played eleven Super Liga games this season on Estadio AXA. On home ground, Braga has won seven, drawn one and lost three games and this ranked Braga 3rd in home team performance in the Portugal Super Liga.

Braga manager Domingos Paciencia believes his squads are capable of pulling off a shock result over the two legs.

Liverpool topped their Europa League group with 10 points and has not lost a single game this season, but with only two victories and four draws.

Liverpool has won 25 per cent of their games away from home ground over Portuguese teams is won two, drawn three and loss three games so far. The last win for Liverpool in Portugal was back in 1983/84 European Champion Cup quarter finals over Benfica.

Liverpool has played fourteen Premier League matches this season away from home. On away ground, Liverpool has won three, drawn two and lost nine games and this ranked the Reds 16th in away team performance in the English Premier League.

Possible starting XI:

Braga: Artur, Miguel Garcia, Kaka, A Rodriguez, Silvio, Hugo Viana, Custodio, Vinicius, Alan, Lima and Ukra.

Liverpool: Reina, Johnson, Kyrgiakos, Agger, Wilson, Kuyt, Lucas, Meireles, Poulsen, Maxi and Carroll.

"Braga and Liverpool"