# Rio Ave 0–2 Benfica · Ratings and player of the match · 2025-26 Liga Portugal | Sir Balone > Ratings for every player in Rio Ave v Benfica (0–2), matchday 18, 2025-26 Liga Portugal. Player of the match: Samuel Dahl (70). URL: https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/matches/rio-ave-benfica-2026-01-17/ Datos al: 2026-10-15 Fuente de los datos: Sportmonks (https://www.sportmonks.com/). Métricas, notas y textos: La Lente, de Sir Balone, a cargo de Juan Carlos Vasquez (https://sirbalone.com/authors/juan-carlos-vasquez/). § Liga Portugal · 2025-26 · Matchday 18 ## [Rio Ave](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/teams/rio-ave-6377/2025-26/) 0 – 2 [Benfica](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/teams/benfica-605/2025-26/) - Barreiro 16' - Ntoi 25' (o.g.) 17 January 2026 ### The match in data A 2–0 win for Benfica against Rio Ave on 17 January 2026, on matchday 18 of the 2025-26 Liga Portugal. Player of the match: Samuel Dahl (Benfica), rated 70, thanks above all to 9 tackles and 11 recoveries. Dahl produced 1.8 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.5 times the cost. For Rio Ave, the highest-rated player was Nelson Abbey, with 60. 70 Player of the match ### [Samuel Dahl](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/samuel-dahl-37295874/) Benfica · 90' Produced **1.81×** and cost **0.54×** their position's average Added - 9 tackles 4.0× - 11 recoveries 3.0× - 11 duels won 2.4× Took away - 0.14 xG not converted 3.9× - 4 misplaced passes 0.6× ### 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. **Rio Ave** | Player | Position | Min | Rating | |---|---|---|---| | [Nelson Abbey](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/nelson-abbey-28912833/) | Defender | 90 | 60 | | [Brandon Aguilera](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/brandon-aguilera-25206251/) | Midfielder | 80 | 48 | | [Cezary Miszta](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/cezary-miszta-13590981/) | Goalkeeper | 90 | 42 | | [Dario Spikic](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/dario-spikic-75098/) | Forward | 80 | 40 | | [André Luiz](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/andre-luiz-37579645/) | Forward | 73 | 38 | | [Clayton](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/clayton-37402386/) | Forward | 90 | 37 | | [Jakub Brabec](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/jakub-brabec-63213/) | Defender | 90 | 34 | | [Francisco Petrasso](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/francisco-petrasso-37681543/) | Defender | 90 | 32 | | [Nikolaos Athanasiou](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/nikolaos-athanasiou-37566512/) | Defender | 73 | 32 | | [Andreas Ntoi](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/andreas-ntoi-37337085/) | Defender | 72 | 29 | | [João Tomé](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/joao-tome-37354839/) | Defender | 90 | 23 | | [Antonis Papakanellos](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/antonis-papakanellos-37701365/) | Midfielder | 18 | no rating | | [Ole Pohlmann](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/ole-pohlmann-6642510/) | Midfielder | 17 | no rating | | [Tamás Nikitscher](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/tamas-nikitscher-31226216/) | Midfielder | 17 | no rating | | [Diogo Bezerra](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/diogo-bezerra-37599597/) | Forward | 10 | no rating | | [Georgios Liavas](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/georgios-liavas-22136570/) | Midfielder | 10 | no rating | **Benfica** | Player | Position | Min | Rating | |---|---|---|---| | [Samuel Dahl](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/samuel-dahl-37295874/) ★ | Defender | 90 | 70 | | [Nicolás Otamendi](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/nicolas-otamendi-1822/) | Defender | 90 | 66 | | [Fredrik Aursnes](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/fredrik-aursnes-151551/) | Midfielder | 90 | 65 | | [Georgiy Sudakov](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/georgiy-sudakov-23277810/) | Midfielder | 90 | 62 | | [Leandro Barreiro](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/leandro-barreiro-3862667/) | Midfielder | 90 | 61 | | [Gianluca Prestianni](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/gianluca-prestianni-37625767/) | Forward | 78 | 55 | | [Anatoliy Trubin](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/anatoliy-trubin-9938909/) | Goalkeeper | 90 | 54 | | [Sidny Cabral](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/sidny-lopes-cabral-37559583/) | Defender | 28 | 54 | | [Tomás Araújo](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/tomas-araujo-24065379/) | Defender | 90 | 42 | | [Vangelis Pavlidis](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/vangelis-pavlidis-36265/) | Forward | 90 | 42 | | [Amar Dedić](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/amar-dedic-22493645/) | Defender | 90 | 41 | | [Andreas Schjelderup](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/andreas-schjelderup-37555815/) | Forward | 62 | 40 | | [João Rego](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/joao-rego-37597775/) | Midfielder | 12 | no rating | | [Manu Silva](https://sirbalone.com/en/la-lente/players/manu-silva-37548047/) | Midfielder | 1 | no rating | ### Did you know? La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer. **Which Benfica player made the most tackles?** Samuel Dahl, with 9 tackles. Next: Fredrik Aursnes 4, Leandro Barreiro 2. Samuel Dahl delivered an outstanding defensive display for Benfica with 9 tackles. He more than doubled Fredrik Aursnes (4), while Leandro Barreiro added 2. **Which Rio Ave player recovered the most balls?** Nelson Abbey, with 9 recoveries. Next: André Luiz 7, João Tomé 4. Nelson Abbey led Rio Ave's defensive work with 9 ball recoveries. André Luiz added 7 and João Tomé chipped in with 4 despite the 0–2 defeat. ### 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. ### Share this match [See the match in La Lente Line-ups on the pitch, what each player produced and cost, and the match line by line.](https://app.sirbalone.com/#partidos/19502599)