Rio Ave 0–3 Arouca
- Esgaio 44'
- Barbero 53'
- Lee 66'
31 January 2026
The match in data
Arouca beat Rio Ave 3–0 on 31 January 2026, on matchday 20 of the 2025-26 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Iván Barbero (Arouca), rated 68, thanks above all to 0.69 xG and 1 goal. Barbero produced 1.5 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.6 times the cost.
For Rio Ave, the highest-rated player was Brandon Aguilera, with 64.
Iván Barbero
Arouca · 76'
Produced 1.52× and cost 0.59× their position's average
- 0.69 xG 3.4×
- 1 goal 4.0×
- 1 shot on target 1.5×
- 2 shots off target 1.9×
- 1 ball lost 0.9×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brandon Aguilera | Midfielder | 80 | 64 |
| Marios Vrousai | Defender | 90 | 61 |
| Julien Lomboto | Defender | 73 | 59 |
| Francisco Petrasso | Defender | 90 | 56 |
| Nelson Abbey | Defender | 90 | 49 |
| Diogo Bezerra | Forward | 30 | 49 |
| Antonis Papakanellos | Forward | 73 | 37 |
| Andreas Ntoi | Defender | 73 | 36 |
| Ole Pohlmann | Midfielder | 90 | 30 |
| Clayton | Forward | 90 | 26 |
| Omar Richards | Defender | 60 | 24 |
| Kevin Chamorro | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Dario Spikic | Forward | 17 | no rating |
| Jonathan Panzo | Defender | 17 | no rating |
| Tamás Nikitscher | Midfielder | 17 | no rating |
| Karem Zoabi | Forward | 10 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iván Barbero ★ | Forward | 76 | 68 |
| Bas Kuipers | Defender | 90 | 67 |
| Javi Sánchez | Defender | 68 | 67 |
| Boris Popović | Defender | 22 | 65 |
| Tiago Esgaio | Defender | 90 | 60 |
| Taichi Fukui | Midfielder | 90 | 54 |
| Hyun-ju Lee | Midfielder | 76 | 50 |
| Naïs Djouahra | Forward | 90 | 47 |
| Espen van Ee | Midfielder | 90 | 44 |
| José Fontán | Defender | 90 | 41 |
| Alfonso Trezza | Forward | 90 | 28 |
| Ignacio de Arruabarrena | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Brian Mansilla | Forward | 14 | no rating |
| Pablo Gozálbez | Midfielder | 14 | no rating |
| Diogo Monteiro | Defender | 1 | no rating |
| Yellu Santiago | Midfielder | 1 | 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.