Artur Jorge’s Attacking Tactics At Sporting Braga – Scout Report

Since his retirement as a player in 2004, after more than 15 years as a Sporting Braga footballer, Artur Jorge dedicated himself to form as a coach to continue his career in football.

Six years after his retirement, he found a job again within the club he loves, as the coach of the U-19 team and later of the B team.

After some years as a professional coach in the lower divisions of Portugal, he decided to return to the Braga team to continue coaching in the youth academies, between the U-15 and U-19 teams again.

After so many years as a player of the institution and almost ten as a coach of different categories, he took the biggest opportunity which he surely had been waiting a long time for, becoming the first-team coach this season.

Until now, he has played in different competitions, including the Primeira Liga, Taca de Liga, Allianz Cup, UEFA Europa League and soon the UEFA Europa Conference League, leaving very good signs of positional, fun and fluid football, in addition to sealing excellent results that keep them third in the league with 43 points, staying in the Champions League positions for the next campaign.

That is why we will carry out a tactical analysis in the form of a scout report on Artur Jorge tactics and mainly on his offensive philosophy that keeps Sporting Braga putting in great performances.

This analysis will explain the principles in their build-up, elaboration of plays and attacking ideas.

Building out from the back

Sporting Braga has found different methods in their build-up.

However they have constantly faced teams within their league that close their spaces with a low block, but they have been able to become a machine to create chances and score goals.

In Artur Jorges system, long possessions predominate, side-by-side ball movements in each phase of the game and different movements that allow opening spaces in some areas of the pitch.

To enter more into context, Braga plays with four at the back, which are quite positional and especially their full-backs play a very wide role and carry the offensive responsibility from the wings.

The first method of looking for ball progression is a 2+1 that the central defenders perform with any of the two midfielders of the double pivot that drops in looking for the ball.

They can create a 3+1 with the other midfielder coming inside the CBs line and the other one staying in front of them.

The positioning of their wingers within their frequent 4-4-2 is quite narrow, due to the profile of Iuri Medeiros and Ricardo Horta, who are players who are more between the lines rather than out wide, and that is what they do at Braga.

However, they have a lot of movements between the wing, the central channels and the penalty area which creates unpredictability for rivals to stop them.

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