Sporting de Braga beat Nacional 1-0 at the opening of the 23rd round of the I Portuguese Football League, and rose provisions to third place in the championship. Playing at home, the Braga scored the only goal of the match on 37 minutes, for Frenchman Gorby, ensuring the sixth triumph in the last seven games in the championship. With this triumph, Sporting de Braga provisionally rose to third place with 47 points, more than FC Porto, which only playing Monday, while Nacional returned to defeats and is 13th with 23.