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Celtic 0-1 Braga
Amine El Ouazzani wraps his foot round an effort, but it's just wide of the far post.
That was close.
Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
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1 Sporting Braga | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
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3 Viktoria Plzeň | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
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2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
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5 Freiburg | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
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6 Panathinaikos | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
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7 Dinamo Zagreb | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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8 Midtjylland | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
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9 Stuttgart | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
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10 Genk | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
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12 Porto | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
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14 Go Ahead Eagles | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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16 Brann | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
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17 Young Boys | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 3 |
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18 Fenerbahçe | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -1 | 3 |
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19 Ludogorets Razgrad | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 3 |
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20 FCSB | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 3 |
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1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
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22 Ferencváros | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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23 Red Star Belgrade | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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24 Maccabi Tel Aviv | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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25 PAOK | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
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26 Bologna | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 1 |
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2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -2 | 1 |
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28 Basel | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
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29 Celta Vigo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 0 |
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30 Feyenoord | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
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32 Red Bull Salzburg | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 0 |
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2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 0 |
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34 Sturm Graz | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
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35 Utrecht | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | -2 | 0 |
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36 Malmö FF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | -4 | 0 |
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Manager: Brendan Rodgers
Formation: 4 - 3 - 3
Manager: Carlos Vicens
Formation: 3 - 4 - 2 - 1
Manager: Brendan Rodgers
Formation: 4 - 3 - 3
Manager: Carlos Vicens
Formation: 3 - 4 - 2 - 1
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This will be the third European match between Celtic and Braga, after the Portuguese side eliminated the Hoops during a UEFA Champions League qualifier in 2010-11 (4-2 on aggregate).
Braga have played Scottish opposition four times previously in the UEFA Europa League, losing three times to and beating Rangers once between 2020 and 2022.
Celtic have lost just one of their last eight home games in all European competition (W4 D3), a 1-2 defeat to Bayern Munich in last season’s UEFA Champions League.
Braga have failed to win any of their last four away UEFA Europa League games (D1 L3), conceding nine goals in total during that time.
After his goal against Crvena Zvezda, Kelechi Iheanacho could become the seventh player to score in both of his first two major European competition appearances for Celtic, and first since both Andreas Thom and Simon Donnelly did so in September 1995 in the Cup Winners’ Cup.