Braga v Ludogorets background
Braga will find to extend their continental winning strain to 6 games as they acquire a Ludogorets side brief of divided success in UEFA Europa League Group C.
Previous meetings
• The clubs are assembly for a initial time; conjunction has formerly played a organisation from their opponents’ home country.
• Portuguese sides have had a improved of a 16 UEFA bar foe encounters with Bulgarian clubs: W9 D5 L2.
• Ludogorets will demeanour to turn a initial Bulgarian organisation to win a UEFA bar competiton diversion in Portugal (D1 L7).
Form guide
• Unbeaten in 6 European matches this season, Braga are on a five-game winning strain in a UEFA Europa League.
• Ludogorets are undefeated in 5 European matches (W3 D2), though are but a win in 9 UEFA divided games (D6 L3).
• Fifth in Portugal final term, and runners-up in a 2010/11 UEFA Europa League, Braga are competing in this organisation theatre for a third true season.
• Bulgarian champions Ludogorets got to a turn of 16 in their usually prior UEFA Europa League organisation theatre debate of 2013/14 – and played in final season’s turn of 32 after transferring from a UEFA Champions League.
Trivia and links
• The tour from Razgrad to Braga is around 2,850km.
• The tie is holding place a day after Braga midfielder Fransérgio’s 27th birthday.
The coaches
• At a helm given Apr 2017, Abel Ferreira was formerly Braga’s B organisation coach. A right-back, he graduated from home-town side Penafiel to Vitória Guimarães, Braga and Sporting CP, where he won dual Portuguese Cups before timid in 2011.
• Hired in summer 2017, Ludogorets trainer Dimitar Dimitrov determined his coaching repute during home-town bar Neftochimik Burgas and landed Bulgarian titles with Litex Lovech and Levski Sofia, after coaching in Russia and Kazakhstan.