Sporting Braga 3–0 Rio Ave
- Grillitsch 4'
- Horta 73'
- Horta 90+3'
8 February 2026
The match in data
A 3–0 win for Sporting Braga against Rio Ave on 8 February 2026, on matchday 21 of the 2025-26 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Ricardo Horta (Sporting Braga), rated 76, thanks above all to 0.95 xG and 2 goals. Horta produced 2.5 times as much as a forward typically does, at 0.5 times the cost.
It is their 3rd time as player of the match this season.
For Rio Ave, the highest-rated player was Nelson Abbey, with 61.
Ricardo Horta scored twice.
Ricardo Horta
Sporting Braga · 90'
Produced 2.47× and cost 0.51× their position's average
- 0.95 xG 4.0×
- 2 goals 4.0×
- 3 shots on target 3.7×
- 1 shot off target 0.8×
- 2 balls lost 1.4×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ricardo Horta ★ | Forward | 90 | 76 |
| João Moutinho | Midfielder | 90 | 70 |
| Adrian Leon Barisic | Defender | 90 | 69 |
| Florian Grillitsch | Midfielder | 82 | 69 |
| Pau Víctor | Forward | 74 | 57 |
| Víctor Gómez | Defender | 89 | 51 |
| Gabri Martínez | Forward | 75 | 51 |
| Gustaf Lagerbielke | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Rodrigo Zalazar | Midfielder | 82 | 33 |
| Bright Arrey-Mbi | Defender | 90 | 30 |
| Lukas Hornicek | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Fran Navarro | Forward | 16 | no rating |
| Diego Rodrigues | Midfielder | 15 | no rating |
| Demir Ege Tıknaz | Midfielder | 8 | no rating |
| Leonardo Lelo | Defender | 8 | no rating |
| Yanis da Rocha | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nelson Abbey | Defender | 90 | 61 |
| Dario Spikic | Forward | 20 | 61 |
| Gustavo Mancha | Defender | 90 | 60 |
| Ole Pohlmann | Midfielder | 28 | 59 |
| Jalen Blesa | Forward | 20 | 57 |
| Omar Richards | Defender | 84 | 51 |
| Diogo Bezerra | Forward | 70 | 51 |
| Tamble Monteiro | Forward | 70 | 44 |
| Marios Vrousai | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Tamás Nikitscher | Midfielder | 90 | 37 |
| Jakub Brabec | Defender | 90 | 35 |
| Georgios Liavas | Midfielder | 84 | 35 |
| Antonis Papakanellos | Forward | 62 | 24 |
| Ennio Van Der Gouw | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Andreas Ntoi | Defender | 10 | no rating |
| Leonardo Buta | Defender | 10 | 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.