Sporting de Braga, runner-up in the Portuguese Football League, tries this Thursday to prolong the good moment in the reception to Union Berlin, leader of the Bundesliga, in the second day of Group D of the Europa League.
Braga won their last six games – five for the championship and in the visit to Swedish Malmö, for the Europa League – and can maintain the leadership of the ‘poule’, which they share with the Belgian Union Saint-Gilloise.
The Berlin team, led by Urs Fischer, surprisingly leads the German championship, with one point more than Freiburg and two more than the ten-time champion Bayern Munich, but lost at home, in its debut in the Europa League, against the Belgian rival , by 1-0.
With central defender Diogo Leite in the squad, Union Berlin has had the efficiency of Dutchman Sheraldo Becker, scorer of five goals in the Bundesliga, as many as the top scorer in the I League, Frenchman from Braga Simon Banza, being able to witness a duel between the two ‘gunners’, in the match scheduled for 8:00 p.m., at the Braga Municipal Stadium.
In the other game of the group stage, Union Saint-Gilloise, seventh in the Belgian league, is looking for its second victory in the competition against Malmö, fifth in the Swedish championship.
On a day in which the match between Arsenal and PSV Eindhoven was postponed, due to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, José Mourinho’s Roma will try to add their first victory in the competition, while Jorge Jesus’s Fenerbahçe, the second.
The Italian club receives the Finns from HJK Helsinki, after losing to the Bulgarian Ludogorets (2-1), in Group C, while the Turks play in Rennes, after their victory at home against Dynamo kyiv (2 -1), by Group B.
Also today, Manchester United, led by Cristiano Ronaldo, Diogo Dalot and Bruno Fernandes, try to remedy the false entry into Group E, with the defeat at home against Real Sociedad (1-0), and the victory on the trip to Moldova. where he will face the Sheriff.
Source: TSF
