Wolves vs Braga
Europa League Group K
8:00pm Thursday September
Molineux
Team news, key stats and predictions ahead of Wolves vs Braga since the Europa League group stage starts.
Wolves welcome Willy Boly again after the protector served a suspension at the Premier League.
Ryan Bennett could also be remembered at the cost of both Jesus Vallejo, who fought during the 5-2 defeat by Chelsea.
While Ruben Vinagre and Jonny Otto could be rotated at left wing-back nuno Espirito Santo have to pick between Adama Traore and Matt Doherty at appropriate wing-back.
Braga boss Ricardo Sa Pinto has a lot of options at his disposal. Andre Horta could be drafted back in the midfield instead of Paulinho.
Former Fulham striker Rui Fonte might need to settle for a place among the substitutes.
This will be the very first competitive meeting between Braga and Wolves.
Mothers have won five of the six previous meetings together with all Portuguese opponents (L1), though all of those came from 1971 and 1974.
Braga have only won one of the eight away matches against English opposition (D2 L5), beating Birmingham 3-1 in the 2011-12 Europa League.
Braga haven’t lost his opening group stage match at the Europa League earlier, winning three and drawing . All three of the wins have come in away games.
This is Wolves’ first appearance in a European competition since the 1980-81 UEFA Cup. They won each of the Europa League qualifiers this season, netting 19 goals, with Diogo Jota having a hand in eight of these aims (3 goals, 5 assists).
Nuno Espirito Santo will want to have one over. Braga are always harmful but don’t travel well. Are caught up in the emotion of this Europa League? As Chelsea thumped them they took their foot off the pedal in Premier League.
They were blown away in the weekend and create many errors and also it had been very unlike them to concede five. They will need to return to basics and get a win in in the Premier League, however Nuno will take this seriously and I expect Wolves to be too strong here, getting off to a fine start from the group stages.
CHARLIE PREDICTS: 2-0 (6/1 with Sky Bet)
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