Nacional 0–2 Benfica
- Di María 59' (pen.)
- Di María 74'
19 December 2024
The match in data
Benfica beat Nacional 2–0 on 19 December 2024, on matchday 8 of the 2024-25 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Nicolás Otamendi (Benfica), rated 75, thanks above all to 11 duels won and 6 aerials won. Otamendi produced 1.4 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.2 times the cost.
It is their 4th time as player of the match this season.
For Nacional, the highest-rated player was Lucas França, with 72.
Ángel Di María scored twice.
Nicolás Otamendi
Benfica · 90'
Produced 1.36× and cost 0.22× their position's average
- 11 duels won 2.3×
- 6 aerials won 3.6×
- 4 tackles 2.2×
- 7 misplaced passes 0.9×
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucas França | Goalkeeper | 90 | 72 |
| Ze Vitor | Defender | 90 | 61 |
| Luís André Leite Esteves | Midfielder | 85 | 54 |
| Garcia | Defender | 90 | 50 |
| Ulisses | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Matheus Dias | Midfielder | 63 | 42 |
| Djibril Soumaré | Midfielder | 90 | 41 |
| Daniel Penha | Midfielder | 27 | 32 |
| Dudu Teodora | Forward | 80 | 29 |
| Dyego Sousa | Forward | 27 | 27 |
| José Gomes | Defender | 90 | 22 |
| Arvin Appiah | Defender | 63 | 22 |
| Bruno Costa | Midfielder | 27 | 21 |
| Isaac | Forward | 63 | 20 |
| Chiheb Labidi | Midfielder | 10 | no rating |
| Nigel Thomas | Forward | 9 | no rating |
| João Aurélio | Defender | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolás Otamendi ★ | Defender | 90 | 75 |
| Orkun Kökçü | Midfielder | 87 | 62 |
| Florentino | Midfielder | 90 | 60 |
| Ángel Di María | Forward | 87 | 59 |
| Tomás Araújo | Defender | 90 | 57 |
| Álvaro Carreras | Defender | 90 | 51 |
| Vangelis Pavlidis | Forward | 73 | 51 |
| Kerem Aktürkoğlu | Forward | 81 | 50 |
| Anatoliy Trubin | Goalkeeper | 90 | 47 |
| Alexander Bah | Defender | 90 | 46 |
| Fredrik Aursnes | Midfielder | 81 | 46 |
| Zeki Amdouni | Forward | 17 | no rating |
| Leandro Barreiro | Midfielder | 9 | no rating |
| Niklas Beste | Forward | 9 | no rating |
| Andreas Schjelderup | Forward | 8 | no rating |
| Benjamín Rollheiser | Forward | 8 | no rating |
Did you know?
La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.
Which Benfica player recovered the most balls?
Ángel Di María, with 8 recoveries. Next: Orkun Kökçü 7, Tomás Araújo 6.
In the 0–2 win at Nacional, Ángel Di María led Benfica with 8 ball recoveries. Di María finished just ahead of Orkun Kökçü (7) and Tomás Araújo (6) across the 90 minutes.
Which Nacional player recovered the most balls?
Ze Vitor, with 9 recoveries. Next: Djibril Soumaré 7, Ulisses 3.
Despite a 0–2 home defeat, Nacional remained active off the ball. Ze Vitor led the defensive effort with 9 recoveries, ahead of Djibril Soumaré with 7.
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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