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 73, thanks above all to 7 aerials won and 9 duels won. Otamendi produced 1.8 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.5 times the cost.
For Arouca, the highest-rated player was Miguel Puche, with 53.
Vangelis Pavlidis scored a hat-trick.
Nicolás Otamendi
Benfica · 90'
Produced 1.79× and cost 0.46× 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 shot off target, worth 0.19 4.0×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: anyone who played under 20 minutes, and a goalkeeper who did not play the whole match.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolás Otamendi ★ | Defender | 90 | 73 |
| Tomás Araújo | Defender | 90 | 62 |
| Fredrik Aursnes | Midfielder | 90 | 54 |
| Dodi Lukébakio | Forward | 77 | 54 |
| Vangelis Pavlidis | Forward | 77 | 54 |
| Samuel Dahl | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Gianluca Prestianni | Forward | 63 | 50 |
| João Rego | Midfielder | 23 | 50 |
| Anatoliy Trubin | Goalkeeper | 90 | 43 |
| Enzo Barrenechea | Midfielder | 90 | 42 |
| Richard Ríos | Midfielder | 67 | 42 |
| Georgiy Sudakov | Midfielder | 63 | 42 |
| Andreas Schjelderup | Forward | 27 | 38 |
| Leandro Barreiro | Midfielder | 27 | 34 |
| Franjo Ivanović | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| Ivan Lima | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miguel Puche | Forward | 90 | 53 |
| Omar Fayed | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Naïs Djouahra | Forward | 28 | 45 |
| David Simão | Midfielder | 90 | 42 |
| Taichi Fukui | Midfielder | 44 | 42 |
| José Fontán | Defender | 90 | 41 |
| Pablo Gozálbez | Midfielder | 46 | 41 |
| Espen van Ee | Midfielder | 46 | 38 |
| Arnau Solà | Defender | 89 | 36 |
| Tiago Esgaio | Defender | 90 | 33 |
| Hyun-ju Lee | Midfielder | 44 | 32 |
| João Valido | Goalkeeper | 90 | 29 |
| Iván Barbero | Forward | 86 | 24 |
| Alfonso Trezza | Forward | 62 | 20 |
| Brian Mansilla | Forward | 4 | no rating |
| Amadou Dante | Defender | 1 | no rating |
Did you know?
La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.
Which Arouca player recovered the most balls?
Omar Fayed, with 6 recoveries. Next: José Fontán 4, Pablo Gozálbez 4.
In Arouca's 5–0 defeat against Benfica, Omar Fayed led the team's defensive work with 6 recoveries. José Fontán and Pablo Gozálbez followed with 4 each.
Which Benfica player won the most aerial duels?
Nicolás Otamendi, with 7 aerial duels won. Next: Gianluca Prestianni 2, Tomás Araújo 2.
Nicolás Otamendi controlled the air with 7 aerial duels won in Benfica's 5–0 win over Arouca. Gianluca Prestianni and Tomás Araújo trailed behind with 2 each.
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.
Share this match
