Rio Ave 2–3 Benfica
- Aguilera 64'
- Clayton 75'
- Clayton 90+4'
- Kökçü 30'
- Pavlidis 53' (pen.)
- Aktürkoğlu 80'
16 March 2025
The match in data
A 3–2 win for Benfica against Rio Ave on 16 March 2025, on matchday 26 of the 2024-25 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Orkun Kökçü (Benfica), rated 74, thanks above all to 19 final-third passes and 5 key passes. Kökçü produced 1.9 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.6 times the cost.
It is their 5th time as player of the match this season.
For Rio Ave, the highest-rated player was Clayton, with 62.
Clayton was sent off at 90+4'.
Orkun Kökçü
Benfica · 74'
Produced 1.93× and cost 0.63× their position's average
- 19 final-third passes 4.0×
- 5 key passes 4.0×
- 63 passes 1.8×
- 9 misplaced passes 1.6×
- 1 time dribbled past 1.3×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clayton | Forward | 90 | 62 |
| Marios Vrousai | Defender | 88 | 57 |
| Brandon Aguilera | Midfielder | 90 | 56 |
| Tiago Morais | Forward | 32 | 54 |
| Demir Ege Tıknaz | Midfielder | 73 | 51 |
| Francisco Miguel Ribeiro Tomé Tavares Bondoso | Forward | 88 | 49 |
| Omar Richards | Defender | 90 | 45 |
| Andreas Ntoi | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Ole Pohlmann | Midfielder | 73 | 37 |
| André Luiz | Forward | 58 | 36 |
| Jonathan Panzo | Defender | 90 | 30 |
| Cezary Miszta | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| João Graça | Midfielder | 17 | no rating |
| Theofanis Bakoulas | Midfielder | 17 | no rating |
| João Tomé | Defender | 2 | no rating |
| Karem Zoabi | Forward | 2 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orkun Kökçü ★ | Midfielder | 74 | 74 |
| Leandro Barreiro | Midfielder | 44 | 70 |
| Nicolás Otamendi | Defender | 90 | 69 |
| António Silva | Defender | 90 | 67 |
| Fredrik Aursnes | Midfielder | 90 | 61 |
| Álvaro Carreras | Defender | 90 | 59 |
| Florentino | Midfielder | 90 | 52 |
| Zeki Amdouni | Forward | 74 | 50 |
| Bruma | Forward | 88 | 49 |
| Vangelis Pavlidis | Forward | 74 | 45 |
| Tomás Araújo | Defender | 46 | 43 |
| Anatoliy Trubin | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Andrea Belotti | Forward | 16 | no rating |
| Kerem Aktürkoğlu | Forward | 16 | no rating |
| Renato Sanches | Midfielder | 16 | no rating |
| Samuel Dahl | Defender | 2 | 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.