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 back following the protector served a one-match suspension at the Premier League.
Ryan Bennett could likewise be remembered at the cost of both Jesus Vallejo, that struggled by Chelsea in Molineux.
While Ruben Vinagre and Jonny Otto may be rotated at nuno Espirito Santo should pick at right wing-back between Matt Doherty and Adama Traore.
Braga manager 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 replacements.
This will be the very first ever competitive assembly between Wolves and Braga.
Mothers have won five of the six previous meetings with Portuguese competitions (L1), though all of those came between 1971 and 1974.
Braga have only won one of the eight away games against English resistance (D2 L5), beating Birmingham 3-1 in the 2011-12 Europa League.
Braga haven’t dropped his opening group stage game earlier, winning three and drawing . All three of the wins have come in away games.
This can be Wolves’ first appearance in a European competition since the 1980-81 UEFA Cup. They won all six of the Europa League qualifiers this year, netting 19 goals, with Diogo Jota with a hand in eight of these goals (3 goals, 5 assists).
Nuno Espirito Santo will need to have one over in the side. Braga are harmful but don’t travel well. Are Wolves caught up in the emotion of the Europa League? They even took their foot off the pedal in Premier League because they were thumped by Chelsea.
They had been blown away in the weekend and create so many mistakes and it had been very unlike these to concede five. They will need to return to basics and find a win in from the Premier League, but this will be taken by Nuno seriously and I anticipate 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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