Benfica 2–0 Nacional
- Schjelderup 3'
- Silva 14'
12 April 2026
The match in data
Benfica got the better of Nacional, 2–0, on 12 April 2026, on matchday 29 of the 2025-26 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica), rated 73, thanks above all to 12 duels won and 8 aerials won. Otamendi produced 1.8 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.5 times the cost.
It is their 7th time as player of the match this season.
For Nacional, the highest-rated player was Liziero, with 64.
Vangelis Pavlidis missed a penalty at 58'.
Nicolás Otamendi
Benfica · 90'
Produced 1.82× and cost 0.47× their position's average
- 12 duels won 2.6×
- 8 aerials won 4.0×
- 72 passes 1.6×
- 7 misplaced passes 1.0×
- 1 failed dribble 2.2×
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 | 73 |
| Rafa Silva | Forward | 78 | 64 |
| Andreas Schjelderup | Forward | 90 | 59 |
| Leandro Barreiro | Midfielder | 90 | 56 |
| Gianluca Prestianni | Forward | 78 | 55 |
| Amar Dedić | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| António Silva | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| Samuel Dahl | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Richard Ríos | Midfielder | 79 | 33 |
| Vangelis Pavlidis | Forward | 77 | 32 |
| Anatoliy Trubin | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Franjo Ivanović | Forward | 13 | no rating |
| Dodi Lukébakio | Forward | 12 | no rating |
| Fredrik Aursnes | Midfielder | 12 | no rating |
| Enzo Barrenechea | Midfielder | 11 | no rating |
| Gonçalo Moreira | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liziero | Midfielder | 90 | 64 |
| Matheus Dias | Midfielder | 61 | 63 |
| Léo Santos | Defender | 90 | 60 |
| Witiness Quembo | Forward | 61 | 58 |
| Ze Vitor | Defender | 90 | 57 |
| Jesús Ramírez | Forward | 90 | 56 |
| Pablo Ruan | Forward | 29 | 55 |
| Filipe Soares | Midfielder | 29 | 46 |
| Daniel Jr | Midfielder | 90 | 44 |
| Alan Nuñez | Defender | 90 | 41 |
| Chiheb Labidi | Midfielder | 83 | 33 |
| José Gomes | Defender | 83 | 32 |
| Kaique | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Joel Silva | Midfielder | 7 | no rating |
| L. Vallier | Defender | 7 | no rating |
| João Aurélio | 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.