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 80, thanks above all to 11 duels won and 6 aerials won. Otamendi produced 1.6 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.2 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
It is their 4th time as player of the match this season.
For Nacional, the highest-rated player was Ze Vitor, with 65.
Ángel Di María scored twice.
Nicolás Otamendi
Benfica · 90'
Produced 1.58× and cost 0.24× 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: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ze Vitor | Defender | 90 | 65 |
| Luís André Leite Esteves | Midfielder | 85 | 55 |
| Garcia | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Ulisses | Defender | 90 | 51 |
| Matheus Dias | Midfielder | 63 | 46 |
| Djibril Soumaré | Midfielder | 90 | 42 |
| Dudu Teodora | Forward | 80 | 39 |
| Dyego Sousa | Forward | 27 | 38 |
| Daniel Penha | Midfielder | 27 | 37 |
| José Gomes | Defender | 90 | 24 |
| Arvin Appiah | Defender | 63 | 24 |
| Isaac | Forward | 63 | 24 |
| Bruno Costa | Midfielder | 27 | 24 |
| Lucas França | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| 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 | 80 |
| Florentino | Midfielder | 90 | 66 |
| Orkun Kökçü | Midfielder | 87 | 66 |
| Ángel Di María | Forward | 87 | 64 |
| Tomás Araújo | Defender | 90 | 62 |
| Álvaro Carreras | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Kerem Aktürkoğlu | Forward | 81 | 49 |
| Fredrik Aursnes | Midfielder | 81 | 48 |
| Vangelis Pavlidis | Forward | 73 | 48 |
| Alexander Bah | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Anatoliy Trubin | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| 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 |
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.