Lazio finished top of the Europa League group stage despite a 1-0 defeat at Sporting Braga on Thursday as the Portuguese side failed to secure a playoff spot. Braga opened the scoring in the sixth minute when Ricardo Horta fired into the bottom corner from Victor Gomez's cross.

Lazio suffered an unlucky and ultimately irrelevant defeat to SC Braga, as they still topped the Europa League table in this opening phase.

Carlos Carvalhal finally dropped his charges against João Moutinho. He understood, after several poor performances, that he is by far the best midfielder in his team. Today, Moutinho was in charge of leading the team to an absolute miracle: defeat Lazio (the best team in the Europa League) and give the Arsenalistas some hope.