Wolves vs Braga
Europa League Group K
8:00pm Thursday 19th September
Molineux
Team news, key stats and predictions ahead of Wolves vs Braga since the Europa League group stage commences.
Wolves welcome Willy Boly again after the defender served a one-match suspension over the weekend at the Premier League.
Ryan Bennett could likewise be recalled at the expense of both Jesus Vallejo, that fought by Chelsea.
Whereas Ruben Vinagre and Jonny Otto might be rotated at nuno Espirito Santo have to pick between Adama Traore and Matt Doherty at appropriate wing-back.
Braga boss Ricardo Sa Pinto has lots of options at his disposal. Andre Horta might be drafted back in the midfield instead of Paulinho.
Former Fulham striker Rui Fonte may have to settle for a place among the replacements.
This will be the very first competitive meeting between Braga and Wolves.
Mothers have won five of the six previous meetings with all Portuguese competitions (L1), though all of these came from 1971 and 1974.
Braga have just won one of the eight away matches against English resistance (D2 L5), defeating Birmingham 3-1 in the 2011-12 Europa League.
Braga haven’t lost his opening group stage game before, winning three and drawing . All three of those wins have come away games.
That is Wolves’ first appearance in a major European competition as the 1980-81 UEFA Cup. They won each of their Europa League qualifiers this season, netting 19 goals, together with Diogo Jota with a hand in eight of those goals (3 goals, 5 assists).
Nuno Espirito Santo will need to get one over in the Portuguese side. Braga are always harmful but do not travel well. Are caught up in the emotion of this Europa League? Because they were thumped from Chelsea they even took their foot.
They were blown away in the weekend and create so many mistakes and it was really unlike them to concede five. They will have to return to basics and get a win in from the Premier League, however this will be taken by Nuno seriously and I expect Wolves to become too powerful here, getting off to a nice start from the group stages.
CHARLIE PREDICTS: 2-0 (6/1 with Sky Bet)
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