Arouca 0–4 Sporting Braga
- Fontán 15'
- Mantl 26' (o.g.)
- Horta 31'
- Pinto 45+2' (o.g.)
- Lagerbielke 71'
1 December 2025
The match in data
A 4–0 win for Sporting Braga against Arouca on 1 December 2025, on matchday 12 of the 2025-26 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Sikou Niakaté (Sporting Braga), rated 81, thanks above all to 16 final-third passes and 112 passes. Niakaté produced 1.8 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
For Arouca, the highest-rated player was Omar Fayed, with 61.
José Fontán was sent off at 15'.
Ricardo Horta missed a penalty at 26'.
Sikou Niakaté
Sporting Braga · 90'
Produced 1.75× and cost 0.26× their position's average
- 16 final-third passes 2.9×
- 112 passes 2.6×
- 5 aerials won 3.1×
- 5 misplaced passes 0.7×
- 1 duel lost 0.3×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Omar Fayed | Defender | 70 | 61 |
| David Simão | Midfielder | 46 | 57 |
| Hyun-ju Lee | Midfielder | 46 | 57 |
| Boris Popović | Defender | 90 | 55 |
| Miguel Puche | Forward | 44 | 54 |
| Naïs Djouahra | Forward | 90 | 53 |
| Dylan Nandín | Forward | 72 | 50 |
| Amadou Dante | Defender | 44 | 50 |
| Espen van Ee | Midfielder | 44 | 46 |
| Taichi Fukui | Midfielder | 90 | 44 |
| Alex Pinto | Defender | 46 | 38 |
| Tiago Esgaio | Defender | 90 | 32 |
| Arnau Solà | Defender | 20 | 21 |
| Nico Mantl | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Alfonso Trezza | Forward | 18 | no rating |
| José Fontán | Defender | 15 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Diego Rodrigues | Midfielder | 30 | 86 |
| Sikou Niakaté ★ | Defender | 90 | 81 |
| Leonardo Lelo | Defender | 30 | 78 |
| Mario Dorgeles | Midfielder | 90 | 75 |
| Ricardo Horta | Forward | 60 | 73 |
| Vítor Carvalho | Midfielder | 72 | 71 |
| Gorby | Midfielder | 60 | 69 |
| Gustaf Lagerbielke | Defender | 90 | 61 |
| João Moutinho | Midfielder | 30 | 60 |
| Pau Víctor | Forward | 90 | 54 |
| Víctor Gómez | Defender | 60 | 51 |
| Florian Grillitsch | Midfielder | 77 | 49 |
| Amine El Ouazzani | Forward | 90 | 46 |
| Lukas Hornicek | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Paulo Oliveira | Defender | 18 | no rating |
| Gabriel Moscardo | Midfielder | 13 | no rating |
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.