§ Champions League · 2025-26 · League Stage 1

Sporting CP 4–1 Kairat

  • Trincão 44'
  • Trincão 65'
  • Santos 67'
  • Quenda 68'
  • Edmilson 86'

18 September 2025

The match in data

A 4–1 win for Sporting CP against Kairat on 18 September 2025, in the 2025-26 Champions League (League Stage 1).

Player of the match: Morten Hjulmand (Sporting CP), rated 68, thanks above all to 11 final-third passes and 3 key passes. Hjulmand produced 1.4 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.

It was also their best match of the season.

For Kairat, the highest-rated player was Edmilson, with 69.

Francisco Trincão scored twice.

Morten Hjulmand missed a penalty at 21'.

68
Player of the match

Morten Hjulmand

Sporting CP · 70'

Produced 1.38× and cost 0.40× their position's average

Added
  • 11 final-third passes 2.5×
  • 3 key passes 3.4×
  • 51 passes 1.5×
Took away
  • 5 misplaced passes 1.0×
  • 3 duels lost 0.8×

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.

Sporting CP
PlayerPositionMinRating
Morten Hjulmand ★ Midfielder 70 68
Alisson Santos Forward 29 66
Geovany Quenda Forward 90 64
Matheus Reis Defender 24 59
Fotis Ioannidis Forward 29 57
Eduardo Quaresma Defender 90 55
Hidemasa Morita Midfielder 29 55
Pedro Gonçalves Forward 61 54
Francisco Trincão Midfielder 90 53
Gonçalo Inácio Defender 90 45
Luis Suárez Forward 61 45
Giorgi Kochorashvili Midfielder 61 40
João Virgínia Goalkeeper 90 39
Zeno Debast Defender 20 39
Iván Fresneda Defender 90 35
Maxi Araújo Defender 66 33
Kairat
PlayerPositionMinRating
Edmilson Forward 20 69
Sherkhan Kalmurza Goalkeeper 90 53
Dastan Satpaev Forward 90 52
Jorginho Midfielder 90 47
Ofri Arad Midfielder 70 44
Luís Mata Defender 80 42
Damir Kasabulat Midfielder 75 41
Aleksandr Martynovich Defender 90 40
Egor Sorokin Defender 90 30
Jug Stanojev Midfielder 20 28
Valeriy Gromyko Midfielder 90 24
Aleksandr Mrynskiy Midfielder 81 24
Erkin Tapalov Defender 70 23
Adilet Sadybekov Midfielder 15 no rating
Lev Kurgin Defender 10 no rating
Ricardinho Forward 9 no rating

Did you know?

La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.

Which Kairat player won the most duels?

Jorginho, with 9 duels won. Next: Aleksandr Martynovich 5, Valeriy Gromyko 5.

Despite Kairat's 4–1 defeat to Sporting CP, Jorginho stood out in individual battles, winning 9 duels. Aleksandr Martynovich and Valeriy Gromyko trailed with 5 each.

Which Sporting CP player played the most passes into the final third?

Gonçalo Inácio, with 22 final-third passes. Next: Morten Hjulmand 11, Giorgi Kochorashvili 7.

Gonçalo Inácio orchestrated Sporting CP's build-up in the 4–1 win over Kairat, completing 22 passes into the final third. Morten Hjulmand followed with 11, and Giorgi Kochorashvili had 7.

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.

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Sporting CP 4–1 Kairat, Champions League 2025-26. Player of the match: Morten Hjulmand, 68
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Data: Sportmonks. Metrics, ratings and text: La Lente by Sir Balone, edited by Juan Carlos Vasquez.