Wolves vs Braga
Europa League Group K
8:00pm Thursday 19th September
Molineux
Team information, predictions and essential stats ahead of Wolves vs Braga since the Europa League group stage starts.
Wolves welcome again Willy Boly following a suspension was served by the protector at the Premier League on the weekend.
Ryan Bennett could be recalled at the expense of Jesus Vallejo, that struggled throughout the 5-2 defeat by Chelsea.
Whereas Ruben Vinagre and Jonny Otto might be rotated at nuno Espirito Santo have to decide at appropriate wing-back between Matt Doherty and Adama Traore.
Braga manager Ricardo Sa Pinto has a lot of options at his disposal. Andre Horta might be drafted back into the midfield in place of Paulinho.
Former Fulham striker Rui Fonte might need to settle for a place among the replacements.
This will be the first meeting between Braga and Wolves.
Critics have won five of their six previous meetings with all Portuguese opponents (L1), though all of these came from 1971 and 1974.
Braga have only won one of the eight away games against English opposition (D2 L5), defeating Birmingham 3-1 in the 2011-12 Europa League.
Braga haven’t dropped their opening group stage game before, winning three and drawing one. All three of those wins have come away games.
This is Wolves’ first appearance in a significant European competition since the 1980-81 UEFA Cup. They won each of their Europa League qualifiers this year, netting 19 goals, with Diogo Jota with a hand in eight of these aims (3 goals, 5 assists).
Nuno Espirito Santo will wish to get one over. Braga are always dangerous but do not travel well. Are caught up in the emotion of this Europa League? As Chelsea thumped them, they even took their foot.
They were blown away in the weekend and make many errors and also it had been really unlike these to concede five. They will need to return to basics and find a win in in the Premier League, but this will be taken by Nuno seriously and that I expect Wolves to become strong here, getting off to a nice start from the group stages.
CHARLIE PREDICTS: 2-0 (6/1 with Sky Bet)
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