Sporting Braga Beats Caldas SC in Portuguese Cup Amid Protest

National Football

The ‘Minho’ side beat Caldas SC in a match this Tuesday for the round of 16 of the competition. If there were no goals in the first half of the match, in the second half Braga scored three and guaranteed passage to the next stage of the queen cup. Marking this game was a protest from the home fans.

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Sporting de Braga, from the first division, today qualified for the quarter-finals of the Portuguese Cup in football, by beating Caldas, from League 3, 3-0, in a game played in Torres Vedras.

In a match marked by opposition from the Caldas team due to the change, on Monday night, of the venue of the game from Campo da Mata, in Caldas da Rainha, to Torres Vedras, the team from Braga earned the best second half, after a goalless result at half-time, with the winning goals being scored by Fran Navarro (50 minutes), Paulo Oliveira (53) and Mario Dorgeles (59).

In the quarter-finals, the ‘arsenalistas’ will face the team that emerges from the duel between teams from League 3, Lusitano de Évora-Fafe, scheduled for next Saturday and which will close the ’round of 16′.

Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka is a combat sports journalist and general sports reporter at Archysport. A former competitive judoka who represented Japan at the Asian Games, Aiko brings firsthand athletic experience to her coverage of judo, martial arts, and Olympic sports. Beyond combat sports, Aiko covers breaking sports news, major international events, and the stories that cut across disciplines — from doping scandals to governance issues to the business side of global sport. She is passionate about elevating the profile of underrepresented sports and athletes.

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