There is nothing wrong with Celtic’s defensive aptitude – they have kept eight clean sheets in 11 competitive outings this term – but a lack of clinical finishing in the final third is their undoing and Braga are a tough nut to crack.
Braga have had a miserable start to their Primeira Liga campaign, winning only two of their seven outings, but a battling 1-0 success at home to Feyenoord in their Europa League opener shows their capabilities.
It is easy to envisage this pair cancelling one another out for large parts of this encounter, especially with Braga’s last four matches having featured a total of only five goals.
Three of those four games featured just one goal, with Braga suffering 1-0 defeats in the league to Gil Vicente and Nacional, so Celtic may be able to edge a low-scoring encounter.
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There is nothing wrong with Celtic’s defensive aptitude – they have kept eight clean sheets in 11 competitive outings this term – but a lack of clinical finishing in the final third is their undoing and Braga are a tough nut to crack.
Braga have had a miserable start to their Primeira Liga campaign, winning only two of their seven outings, but a battling 1-0 success at home to Feyenoord in their Europa League opener shows their capabilities.
It is easy to envisage this pair cancelling one another out for large parts of this encounter, especially with Braga’s last four matches having featured a total of only five goals.
Three of those four games featured just one goal, with Braga suffering 1-0 defeats in the league to Gil Vicente and Nacional, so Celtic may be able to edge a low-scoring encounter.
