Benfica 1–2 Sporting Braga
- Cabral 77'
- Navarro 17'
- Bambu 40'
4 January 2025
The match in data
A 2–1 win for Sporting Braga against Benfica on 4 January 2025, on matchday 17 of the 2024-25 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Orkun Kökçü (Benfica), rated 71, thanks above all to 16 final-third passes and 81 passes. Kökçü produced 1.5 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
It was the highest rating of the matchday.
It is their 2nd time as player of the match this season.
For Sporting Braga, the highest-rated player was Fran Navarro, with 61.
Orkun Kökçü
Benfica · 90'
Produced 1.50× and cost 0.35× their position's average
- 16 final-third passes 3.3×
- 81 passes 1.9×
- 2 key passes 2.0×
- 7 misplaced passes 1.0×
- 0.03 xG not converted 0.5×
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orkun Kökçü ★ | Midfielder | 90 | 71 |
| Fredrik Aursnes | Midfielder | 45 | 61 |
| Nicolás Otamendi | Defender | 90 | 56 |
| Alexander Bah | Defender | 67 | 55 |
| Álvaro Carreras | Defender | 90 | 54 |
| Tomás Araújo | Defender | 90 | 49 |
| Arthur Cabral | Forward | 45 | 47 |
| Kerem Aktürkoğlu | Forward | 67 | 45 |
| Vangelis Pavlidis | Forward | 67 | 44 |
| Renato Sanches | Midfielder | 23 | 44 |
| Leandro Barreiro | Midfielder | 90 | 42 |
| Ángel Di María | Forward | 82 | 42 |
| Zeki Amdouni | Forward | 23 | 38 |
| Andreas Schjelderup | Forward | 23 | 35 |
| Anatoliy Trubin | Goalkeeper | 90 | 32 |
| Niklas Beste | Forward | 8 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fran Navarro | Forward | 82 | 61 |
| Matheus | Goalkeeper | 90 | 57 |
| Bright Arrey-Mbi | Defender | 25 | 56 |
| Víctor Gómez | Defender | 90 | 55 |
| Diego Rodrigues | Midfielder | 45 | 54 |
| Vítor Carvalho | Midfielder | 90 | 52 |
| Ricardo Horta | Forward | 82 | 49 |
| Adrián Marín | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Robson Bambu | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| João Ferreira | Defender | 59 | 43 |
| Bruma | Forward | 90 | 42 |
| Gabri Martínez | Forward | 65 | 42 |
| Sikou Niakaté | Defender | 31 | 39 |
| Gorby | Midfielder | 45 | 26 |
| Amine El Ouazzani | Forward | 8 | no rating |
| Roger Fernandes | Forward | 8 | no rating |
Did you know?
La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.
Which Benfica player completed the most dribbles?
Nicolás Otamendi, with 4 completed dribbles. Next: Alexander Bah 1, Fredrik Aursnes 1.
In the 1–2 loss to Sporting Braga, Nicolás Otamendi led Benfica with 4 successful dribbles. No teammate managed more than 1, with Alexander Bah and Fredrik Aursnes recording a single dribble each.
Which Sporting Braga player recovered the most balls?
Bruma, with 9 recoveries. Next: Vítor Carvalho 8, Adrián Marín 5.
Bruma put in defensive work by leading Sporting Braga with 9 recoveries in their 1–2 away win over Benfica. That edged out Vítor Carvalho on 8 and Adrián Marín on 5.
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.
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