Vitória Guimarães 0–1 Arouca
- Barbero 53'
- Monteiro 90+3'
8 August 2026
The match in data
Arouca got the better of Vitória Guimarães, 1–0, on 8 August 2026, on matchday 1 of the 2026-27 Liga Portugal.
Player of the match: Thiago Balieiro (Vitória Guimarães), rated 65, thanks above all to 5 interceptions and 76 passes. Balieiro produced 1.1 times as much as a defender typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
For Arouca, the highest-rated player was Dylan Nandín, with 62.
Diogo Monteiro was sent off at 90+3'.
Thiago Balieiro
Vitória Guimarães · 90'
Produced 1.07× and cost 0.41× their position's average
- 5 interceptions 4.0×
- 76 passes 1.5×
- 3 tackles 1.9×
- 3 duels lost 0.9×
- 5 misplaced passes 0.7×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thiago Balieiro ★ | Defender | 90 | 65 |
| Samu | Midfielder | 90 | 59 |
| Gustavo Silva | Forward | 90 | 53 |
| Óscar Rivas | Defender | 90 | 52 |
| Telmo Arcanjo | Forward | 20 | 48 |
| Gonçalo Nogueira | Midfielder | 78 | 45 |
| Beni Mukendi | Midfielder | 90 | 39 |
| A. Ndoye | Forward | 78 | 38 |
| Oumar Camara | Forward | 70 | 30 |
| Maga | Defender | 69 | 25 |
| Tony Strata | Defender | 21 | 25 |
| João Mendes | Defender | 90 | 23 |
| Oliwier Zych | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Matija Mitrovic | Midfielder | 12 | no rating |
| Miguel Nogueira | Forward | 12 | no rating |
| Lohann Doucet | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iván Barbero | Forward | 65 | 62 |
| Dylan Nandín | Forward | 25 | 62 |
| Tiago Esgaio | Defender | 90 | 59 |
| Javi Sánchez | Defender | 73 | 58 |
| José Fontán | Defender | 90 | 51 |
| Naïs Djouahra | Forward | 90 | 51 |
| Pedro Santos | Midfielder | 20 | 45 |
| Orest Lebedenko | Defender | 25 | 41 |
| Alfonso Trezza | Forward | 90 | 40 |
| Taichi Fukui | Midfielder | 90 | 38 |
| Pablo Gozálbez | Midfielder | 20 | 27 |
| Mateo Flores | Defender | 65 | 25 |
| Espen van Ee | Midfielder | 70 | 22 |
| Hyun-ju Lee | Midfielder | 70 | 14 |
| Ignacio de Arruabarrena | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Diogo Monteiro | Defender | 17 | 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.