SC Braga vs Santa Clara: Lineups, Predictions & Betting Tips

SC Braga vs Santa Clara: Lineups, Predictions & Betting Tips

Match Details: December 15 2025 | Estadio Municipal de Braga | Liga Portugal - Round 14 | 18:45 GMT

We see 2 teams clash who are both looking to climb up the table in Portugal. The home team Braga is looking for the 3 points from this match to climb into the top 4 and get a place in Europe. However, Santa Clara is looking to push themselves further away from the bottom half of the table and to try and climb to put some pressure on the teams above them. Our advanced algorithm has predicted that Braga walk away from this game with a 4-0 victory taking all 3 points.

Key Betting Tip: There to be over 3.5 goals in this match at 4.00 odds – this represents excellent values based on tips provided to us by our team of in-house tipsters.

Braga vs Santa Clara Predicted Lineups

Braga predicted starting XI (3-4-1-2): Hornicek, Carvalho, Niakate, Arrey-Mbi, Gomez, Gorby, Grillitsch, Lelo, Horta, Pau Victor, El Quazzani

Santa Clara predicted starting XI (3-5-2): Batista, Venancio, Rocha, Lima, Victor, Araujo, Adriano, Ferreira, Soares, Brenner, Wendel

Previous Braga vs Santa Clara Head-to-Head

Braga 5-0 Santa Clara Braga 1-1 Santa Clara Santa Clara 0-2 Braga Braga 5-3 Santa Clara Santa Clara 0-4 Braga

Braga definitely goes into this game with more confidence. Having won 4 out of the 5 last matches and the only result they didn’t win was a draw. They will have all the confidence in this match. The main bit of confidence that Santa Clara will have is the only result that didn’t go Braga’s way was when they played at home. This gives them confidence that they might be able to get a result. However, having conceded 17 goals in the last 5 matches, this confidence will be very low.

Braga and Santa Clara Match Analysis

Braga’s last 5 matches: Braga 4-2 Nacional (H) Taca De Portugal Rangers 1-1 Braga (A) Europa League Arouca 0-4 Braga (A) Liga Portugal Famalicao 1-2 Braga (A) Liga Portugal Nice 0-1 Braga (A) Europa League

Some very strong for recently for Braga having not lost a match in the last 5 and the only result that wasn’t a win was in Europe. They will be going into this game with a vast amount of confidence, and the fans will be massively behind them as they haven’t played a home game in 4 matches. They have been an output machine scoring 12 goals in the last 5 matches including 2 games where they scored 4 adding onto this the fact that they have only conceded 4 goals in the last 5 matches, they will have all the confidence in the world to go on and win this match.

Santa Clara last 5 matches: Gil Vicente 1-0 Santa Clara (A) Liga Portugal Santa Clara 1-2 Sporting CP (H) Liga Portugal Santa Clara 3-0 UF Comerico e Industria (H) Taca De Portugal Rio Ave 1-1 Santa Clara (A) Liga Portugal Santa Clara 1-0 Casa Pia AC (H) Liga Portugal

Some mixed results for Santa Clara however, they have had a good run in the last 3 matches. There main issue has been scoring in the last 5 matches only being able to score more than 1 goal in a single game over the last 5 matches. This will be an issue for them as Braga has a very strong defence recently and this could cause them many issues if they want to get a result. There other issue is there away form having not won either of their last 2 away games, something they don’t want when facing a team that normally wins by quiet a lot when they play them away. With this poor away form, they could be facing another heavy defeat.

Braga vs Santa Clara Predictions

Our advanced algorithm has analysed over 200 pieces of data and has predicted with a 60% confidence that there will be over 3.5 goals in this match. The key factors that help this are players available, recent form, previous head-to-head, and tactical matchups.

Best Braga vs Santa Clara Betting Tip

Football Park’s Best Bet: There to be over 3.5 goals scored in this match @ 4.00 odds – our team of in-houser tipsters have predicted this based off the fact there has been over 3.5 goals scored in 3 out of the last 5 head-to-head matches between these 2 teams.

Key Players to Watch: Braga vs Santa Clara

Ricardo Horta (Braga): The winger is the current top scorer for Braga this season with 5 goals in his first 11 matches and having only started 9 of those 11. He has been their most clinical player having over performed his Xg this season. They will be hoping that he can keep up this goal scoring in this match so they can push up their goal difference and compete with the teams right at the top of the table. If Braga do win this game expect him to have scored at least one goal.

Gabriel Batista (Santa Clara): The man between the sticks has been a wall for Santa Clara so far this season with 4 clean sheets and conceding just over a goal per game. However, he has managed to prevent 1 Xg this season and this comes from the fact that he has managed to save both penalties he has faced this season something not many keepers can say. Combining his saves from the spot and the fact he is yet to make an error leading to a goal, he has become very trusted in net and they will be hoping he can work some more magic in this match the keep the score down and give them a chance for a result.

Braga vs Santa Clara Match Facts

Referee: Bruno Costa Stadium Information: Estadio Municipal de Braga capacity 30,286 surface grass