Benfica 3–1 Estoril
- Pavlidis 34' (pen.)
- Pavlidis 45+1'
- Pavlidis 80'
- Carvalho 45+3'
3 January 2026
The match in data
Benfica got the better of Estoril, 3–1, on 3 January 2026, on matchday 17 of the 2025-26 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Vangelis Pavlidis (Benfica), rated 72, thanks above all to 1.13 xG (non-penalty) and 2 goals (non-penalty). Pavlidis produced 2.0 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.6 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
It is their 3rd time as player of the match this season.
For Estoril, the highest-rated player was Antef Tsoungui, with 66.
Vangelis Pavlidis scored a hat-trick.
Vangelis Pavlidis
Benfica · 87'
Produced 1.99× and cost 0.56× their position's average
- 1.13 xG (non-penalty) 4.0×
- 2 goals (non-penalty) 4.0×
- 2 shots on target (non-penalty) 2.6×
- 1 shot off target 0.8×
- 9 misplaced passes 1.8×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vangelis Pavlidis ★ | Forward | 87 | 72 |
| Leandro Barreiro | Midfielder | 90 | 61 |
| Samuel Dahl | Defender | 90 | 52 |
| Tomás Araújo | Defender | 90 | 50 |
| Richard Ríos | Midfielder | 90 | 49 |
| Nicolás Otamendi | Defender | 90 | 45 |
| Amar Dedić | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Manu Silva | Midfielder | 90 | 39 |
| Gianluca Prestianni | Forward | 77 | 37 |
| Georgiy Sudakov | Midfielder | 77 | 33 |
| Anatoliy Trubin | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Fredrik Aursnes | Midfielder | 13 | no rating |
| Sidny Cabral | Defender | 13 | no rating |
| Franjo Ivanović | Forward | 3 | no rating |
| João Rego | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antef Tsoungui | Defender | 31 | 66 |
| Jordan Holsgrove | Midfielder | 90 | 59 |
| Felix Bacher | Defender | 90 | 58 |
| Rafik Guitane | Forward | 90 | 58 |
| Fabrício Garcia | Forward | 24 | 56 |
| Jandro Orellana | Midfielder | 78 | 55 |
| João Carvalho | Midfielder | 90 | 48 |
| Ricard Sánchez | Defender | 59 | 48 |
| Kévin Boma | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| Alejandro Marqués | Forward | 66 | 45 |
| Pedro Amaral | Defender | 77 | 34 |
| Yanis Begraoui | Forward | 90 | 33 |
| Joel Robles | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Tiago Parreira Parente | Defender | 13 | no rating |
| Pizzi | Midfielder | 12 | 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.