Match Report
8 points for İstanbul Başakşehir (3rd), 10 for Sporting Braga (1st): a 2-point gap. On recent form Sporting Braga sat only 21st league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 1st overall. Per game in the league, İstanbul Başakşehir were scoring 1.17 and conceding 1.33, Sporting Braga 1.5 and 1.33, against a competition average of 1.32 goals per team per game.
İstanbul Başakşehir carried a 9-game unbeaten run into this, having scored in 13 consecutive games. Sporting Braga arrived on a run of three straight wins, having scored in 7 consecutive games.
The venue was Başakşehir Fatih Terim Stadyumu in Istanbul, with room for 6,500 spectators. İstanbul Başakşehir led 1-0 at the break, and the second half added 2 goals for the 2-1 full-time score.