Benfica 5–0 Arouca
- Pavlidis 9' (pen.)
- Pavlidis 22' (pen.)
- Otamendi 45+6'
- Pavlidis 50'
- Ivanović 90+3' (pen.)
25 October 2025
The match in data
Benfica got the better of Arouca, 5–0, on 25 October 2025, on matchday 9 of the 2025-26 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica), rated 76, thanks above all to 7 aerials won and 9 duels won. Otamendi produced 1.7 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
It is their 2nd time as player of the match this season.
For Arouca, the highest-rated player was Miguel Puche, with 62.
Vangelis Pavlidis scored a hat-trick.
Nicolás Otamendi
Benfica · 90'
Produced 1.67× and cost 0.37× their position's average
- 7 aerials won 4.0×
- 9 duels won 2.0×
- 7 final-third passes 1.3×
- 8 misplaced passes 1.2×
- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolás Otamendi ★ | Defender | 90 | 76 |
| Tomás Araújo | Defender | 90 | 72 |
| Vangelis Pavlidis | Forward | 77 | 66 |
| Fredrik Aursnes | Midfielder | 90 | 60 |
| Samuel Dahl | Defender | 90 | 57 |
| Dodi Lukébakio | Forward | 77 | 54 |
| João Rego | Midfielder | 23 | 51 |
| Gianluca Prestianni | Forward | 63 | 50 |
| Richard Ríos | Midfielder | 67 | 49 |
| Andreas Schjelderup | Forward | 27 | 47 |
| Georgiy Sudakov | Midfielder | 63 | 46 |
| Enzo Barrenechea | Midfielder | 90 | 44 |
| Leandro Barreiro | Midfielder | 27 | 37 |
| Anatoliy Trubin | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Franjo Ivanović | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| Ivan Lima | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miguel Puche | Forward | 90 | 62 |
| Naïs Djouahra | Forward | 28 | 54 |
| Omar Fayed | Defender | 90 | 50 |
| Taichi Fukui | Midfielder | 44 | 49 |
| David Simão | Midfielder | 90 | 46 |
| José Fontán | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Espen van Ee | Midfielder | 46 | 44 |
| Pablo Gozálbez | Midfielder | 46 | 44 |
| Arnau Solà | Defender | 89 | 40 |
| Tiago Esgaio | Defender | 90 | 36 |
| Hyun-ju Lee | Midfielder | 44 | 36 |
| Alfonso Trezza | Forward | 62 | 28 |
| Iván Barbero | Forward | 86 | 24 |
| João Valido | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Brian Mansilla | Forward | 4 | no rating |
| Amadou Dante | Defender | 1 | 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.