Sporting CP 4–0 Rio Ave
- Suárez 34'
- Araújo 53'
- Suárez 60'
- Suárez 61'
28 December 2025
The match in data
Sporting CP got the better of Rio Ave, 4–0, on 28 December 2025, on matchday 16 of the 2025-26 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Morten Hjulmand (Sporting CP), rated 78, thanks above all to 12 final-third passes and 9 recoveries. Hjulmand produced 1.5 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.3 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
It is their 5th time as player of the match this season.
For Rio Ave, the highest-rated player was Francisco Petrasso, with 67.
Luis Suárez scored a hat-trick.
Morten Hjulmand
Sporting CP · 64'
Produced 1.54× and cost 0.31× their position's average
- 12 final-third passes 3.0×
- 9 recoveries 2.8×
- 47 passes 1.6×
- 4 misplaced passes 0.9×
- 1 duel lost 0.3×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Matheus Reis | Defender | 22 | 83 |
| Morten Hjulmand ★ | Midfielder | 64 | 78 |
| Hidemasa Morita | Midfielder | 25 | 72 |
| Luis Suárez | Forward | 90 | 70 |
| Eduardo Quaresma | Defender | 90 | 69 |
| Francisco Trincão | Midfielder | 90 | 64 |
| Giorgi Kochorashvili | Midfielder | 26 | 64 |
| Alisson Santos | Forward | 26 | 58 |
| Fotis Ioannidis | Forward | 78 | 57 |
| Gonçalo Inácio | Defender | 68 | 49 |
| João Simões | Midfielder | 65 | 49 |
| Georgios Vagiannidis | Defender | 90 | 36 |
| Ricardo Mangas | Defender | 90 | 34 |
| Maxi Araújo | Defender | 64 | 31 |
| Rui Silva | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Flávio Gonçalves | Forward | 12 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francisco Petrasso | Defender | 76 | 67 |
| André Luiz | Forward | 44 | 55 |
| Jakub Brabec | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Nikolaos Athanasiou | Defender | 90 | 53 |
| Marios Vrousai | Defender | 44 | 52 |
| Karem Zoabi | Forward | 46 | 48 |
| Andreas Ntoi | Defender | 90 | 45 |
| Ole Pohlmann | Midfielder | 90 | 41 |
| Georgios Liavas | Midfielder | 76 | 41 |
| Nelson Abbey | Defender | 90 | 40 |
| Dario Spikic | Forward | 62 | 35 |
| Brandon Aguilera | Midfielder | 28 | 27 |
| João Tomé | Defender | 46 | 19 |
| Cezary Miszta | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| João Graça | Midfielder | 14 | no rating |
| Julien Lomboto | Defender | 14 | 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.