Nacional 1–4 Sporting CP
- Santos 3'
- Ruan 37'
- Gonçalves 52'
- Gonçalves 76'
- Harder 83'
- Gonçalves 90+3'
23 August 2025
The match in data
Sporting CP beat Nacional 4–1 on 23 August 2025, on matchday 3 of the 2025-26 Liga Portugal.
Sporting CP came from behind: they were trailing 1–0 at 3'.
Player of the match: Pedro Gonçalves (Sporting CP), rated 67, thanks above all to 0.87 xG and 4 shots on target. Gonçalves produced 2.8 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.9 times the cost.
For Nacional, the highest-rated player was Léo Santos, with 56.
Pedro Gonçalves scored a hat-trick.
Pablo Ruan was sent off at 37'.
Pedro Gonçalves
Sporting CP · 90'
Produced 2.79× and cost 0.94× their position's average
- 0.87 xG 3.7×
- 4 shots on target 4.0×
- 3 goals 4.0×
- 4 shots off target, worth 0.43 3.2×
- 9 misplaced passes 1.7×
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Léo Santos | Defender | 90 | 56 |
| Matheus Dias | Midfielder | 90 | 55 |
| Lucas João | Forward | 20 | 54 |
| João Aurélio | Defender | 90 | 52 |
| Liziero | Midfielder | 75 | 48 |
| Jesús Ramírez | Forward | 70 | 46 |
| Paulinho Bóia | Forward | 75 | 38 |
| Filipe Soares | Midfielder | 44 | 33 |
| Ze Vitor | Defender | 90 | 30 |
| José Gomes | Defender | 90 | 28 |
| Chiheb Labidi | Midfielder | 46 | 26 |
| Lucas França | Goalkeeper | 90 | 23 |
| Joel Silva | Midfielder | 15 | no rating |
| Witiness Quembo | Forward | 15 | no rating |
| Martim Gustavo Watts | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgios Vagiannidis | Defender | 26 | 70 |
| Pedro Gonçalves ★ | Forward | 90 | 67 |
| Morten Hjulmand | Midfielder | 90 | 60 |
| Gonçalo Inácio | Defender | 90 | 58 |
| Ricardo Mangas | Defender | 64 | 58 |
| Zeno Debast | Defender | 90 | 57 |
| Hidemasa Morita | Midfielder | 32 | 50 |
| Iván Fresneda | Defender | 64 | 43 |
| Luis Suárez | Forward | 90 | 40 |
| Geny Catamo | Forward | 78 | 40 |
| Rui Silva | Goalkeeper | 90 | 34 |
| Giorgi Kochorashvili | Midfielder | 58 | 34 |
| Geovany Quenda | Forward | 26 | 29 |
| Francisco Trincão | Midfielder | 90 | 23 |
| Conrad Harder | Forward | 12 | no rating |
Did you know?
La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.
Which Sporting CP player played the most passes into the final third?
Zeno Debast, with 16 final-third passes. Next: Gonçalo Inácio 14, Morten Hjulmand 7.
Sporting CP's progression originated at the back, as Zeno Debast made 16 passes into the final third and Gonçalo Inácio added 14. Morten Hjulmand registered 7.
Which Nacional player won the most aerial duels?
Jesús Ramírez, with 4 aerial duels won. Next: José Gomes 1, Chiheb Labidi 1.
Jesús Ramírez served as Nacional's main aerial outlet by winning 4 duels. No teammate managed more than one, with José Gomes and Chiheb Labidi recording a single duel each.
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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