​The Braga vs Panathinaikos Champions League playoff first leg match is scheduled for Wednesday at 10:00 p.m. at the Municipal Stadium and will be broadcast live on Digi Sport 2, Orange Sport 1 and Prima. Sports 1.

“Braga” and “Panathinaikos” met for the first time in the history of the two teams in one of the interesting matches of this stage of the competition.

Braga finished 3rd in the most recent Portuguese league draw, well behind the two leaders, Benfica and Porto, and began their European journey in the third preliminary round of the Champions League in which they eased past Bacca Topola. surprising runner-up Serbia after 3-0 at home and 4-1 away.

The team, coached by their former player Artur Jorge, who played 14 seasons only for Braga before moving to Penafiel at the age of 32, where he retired after just one match, has also played two games in the current Premier League season , 1 – 2 at home with Falimacao and 4-2 at Chavez.

Braga have been a regular fixture in European competition over the past decade, appearing in the group stage nine times (one in the Champions League and eight in the Europa League, the tournament in which they achieved their highest results in the 2021-22 season). eliminated in the quarter-finals by Glasgow Rangers).

Panathinaikos finished 2nd in the last draw of the Greek league, five points behind champions AEK Athens (after the play-offs), although they finished the regular season in 1st place, two points ahead of their city rivals (points are not doubled!) .

Runners-up Greece had to enter the competition in the second preliminary round, in which they saw off Dnipro 3-1 (d) and 2-2 (a), to spring a surprise and eliminate them in the third preliminary round. round to Olympique Marseille, 1-0 (a) and 1-2, 5-3 on penalties (d).

Since 2001, the team has been coached by the Serbian Ivan Jovanovic, who as a technician has four titles, one Cup and three Super Cups with Apoel Limassol in Cyprus, the Gulf Champions League, the President’s Cup and the League Cup with Al-Nasr Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Greek Cup with Panathinaikos (2022).

Panathinaikos, European Cup finalists in 1970-71 (0-2 with Ajax Amsterdam at Wembley in London), last played in the Champions League groups in 2010-11 and in the Europa League groups in 2016. – 2017 year of publication.

Superbet offers odds of 1.50 on the PsF1 prediction: the home team leads at half-time or prevails at the end of the Braga – Panathinaikos match.

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