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 71, 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 Matheus Dias, with 68.
Pedro Gonçalves scored a hat-trick.
Pablo Ruan was sent off at 37'.
Pedro Gonçalves
Sporting CP · 90'
Produced 2.79× and cost 0.92× their position's average
- 0.87 xG 3.7×
- 4 shots on target 4.0×
- 3 goals 4.0×
- 4 shots off target 3.1×
- 9 misplaced passes 1.7×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matheus Dias | Midfielder | 90 | 68 |
| Jesús Ramírez | Forward | 70 | 60 |
| Lucas João | Forward | 20 | 60 |
| João Aurélio | Defender | 90 | 56 |
| Léo Santos | Defender | 90 | 52 |
| Liziero | Midfielder | 75 | 50 |
| Paulinho Bóia | Forward | 75 | 50 |
| Filipe Soares | Midfielder | 44 | 35 |
| Ze Vitor | Defender | 90 | 32 |
| José Gomes | Defender | 90 | 31 |
| Chiheb Labidi | Midfielder | 46 | 29 |
| Lucas França | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| 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 | 73 |
| Pedro Gonçalves ★ | Forward | 90 | 71 |
| Zeno Debast | Defender | 90 | 70 |
| Morten Hjulmand | Midfielder | 90 | 68 |
| Ricardo Mangas | Defender | 64 | 61 |
| Gonçalo Inácio | Defender | 90 | 58 |
| Hidemasa Morita | Midfielder | 32 | 54 |
| Luis Suárez | Forward | 90 | 46 |
| Iván Fresneda | Defender | 64 | 46 |
| Geny Catamo | Forward | 78 | 40 |
| Geovany Quenda | Forward | 26 | 37 |
| Giorgi Kochorashvili | Midfielder | 58 | 36 |
| Francisco Trincão | Midfielder | 90 | 26 |
| Rui Silva | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Conrad Harder | Forward | 12 | 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.