Tondela 0–1 Sporting Braga
- Lagerbielke 82'
- Zalazar 90+2' (pen.)
18 January 2026
The match in data
A 1–0 win for Sporting Braga against Tondela on 18 January 2026, on matchday 18 of the 2025-26 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Sikou Niakaté (Sporting Braga), rated 61, thanks above all to 13 final-third passes and 62 passes. Niakaté produced 1.2 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.6 times the cost.
It is their 2nd time as player of the match this season.
For Tondela, the highest-rated player was Nor Maviram, with 58.
Gustaf Lagerbielke was sent off at 82'.
Hugo Félix missed a penalty at 86'.
Sikou Niakaté
Sporting Braga · 90'
Produced 1.21× and cost 0.57× their position's average
- 13 final-third passes 2.3×
- 62 passes 1.4×
- 5 recoveries 1.4×
- 8 misplaced passes 1.2×
- 4 duels lost 1.1×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nor Maviram | Defender | 90 | 58 |
| Yaya Sithole | Midfielder | 90 | 54 |
| Cícero | Midfielder | 90 | 52 |
| Maranhão | Forward | 87 | 52 |
| Brayan Medina | Defender | 90 | 50 |
| Makan Aïko | Forward | 90 | 50 |
| Christian Marques | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Bebeto | Defender | 90 | 38 |
| Hugo Félix | Midfielder | 87 | 32 |
| Rodrigo Conceição | Defender | 90 | 30 |
| Bernardo | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Joe Hodge | Midfielder | 3 | no rating |
| Moudjatovic | Forward | 3 | no rating |
| Afonso Rodrigues | Forward | 1 | no rating |
| Jordan | Forward | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| João Moutinho | Midfielder | 90 | 61 |
| Sikou Niakaté ★ | Defender | 90 | 61 |
| Fran Navarro | Forward | 26 | 57 |
| Vítor Carvalho | Midfielder | 88 | 55 |
| Gustaf Lagerbielke | Defender | 82 | 55 |
| Florian Grillitsch | Midfielder | 64 | 55 |
| Ricardo Horta | Forward | 90 | 42 |
| Mario Dorgeles | Midfielder | 73 | 41 |
| Leonardo Lelo | Defender | 73 | 37 |
| Pau Víctor | Forward | 64 | 35 |
| Rodrigo Zalazar | Midfielder | 90 | 28 |
| Diego Rodrigues | Midfielder | 26 | 24 |
| Lukas Hornicek | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Gabri Martínez | Forward | 17 | no rating |
| Víctor Gómez | Defender | 17 | no rating |
| Bright Arrey-Mbi | 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.