Match Centre: Sporting Braga vs Benfica
Zalazar 38′ (p)Víctor 45+1′Horta 90+3′
Otamendi 29′Aursnes 53′
Player of the match Rodrigo Zalazar 7.7
GolVolt rating 8.3GolVolt rating
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Key stats
Why this rating
Four pillars, each measured against the same league over the last 12 months.
Settled by 90+2′.
- Dramaweight 50% Settled by 90+2′.The result hung in the balance and big moments changed the game. Drama: 8.9 out of 10
- Heroesweight 20% Nobody stood out. Heroes: 2.5 out of 10
- Stakesweight 15% A lot was at stake before kick-off. Stakes: 9.2 out of 10
- Quality of playweight 15% An average number of chances. Quality of play: 5.9 out of 10
Match ECG
A spike = a twist. The shading = how open the result still was.
GolVolt rating 8.3more watchable than 83% of Liga Portugal matches
The GolVolt rating comes from four pillars — drama, heroes, stakes and quality of play — measured against this league's matches of the last 12 months (model nap-v2).
Similar matches
A similar story: twists, the finish, chances. Same league, last 12 months.
How the match went
4 goals6 cards
Counts cover only events captured in the retained timeline.
Timeline
- 15' Tomás Araújoyellow card
- 29' Goal: Nicolás Otamendiassist: Sudakov0:1
- 30' João Moutinhoyellow card
- 38' Goal: Rodrigo Zalazarpenalty1:1
- 45+1' Goal: Pau VíctorSporting Braga2:1
- Half-time · 2:1
- 53' Goal: Fredrik Aursnesassist: Pavlidis2:2
- 65' Ricardo Hortayellow card
- 74' Richard Ríosyellow card
- 77' 3 substitutionsGrillitsch for MoutinhoMartínez for DorgelesNavarro for Víctor
- 80' 2 substitutionsIvanović for BarreiroPrestianni for Sudakov
- 86' SubstitutionMoscardo for Zalazar
- 88' Gabriel Moscardoyellow card
- 90+3' Ricardo Hortasecond yellow, sent off
- 90+6' SubstitutionOliveira for Gómez
- Full-time · 2:2
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Lineups and ratings
The highlighted rating is the player of the match.
Starting XIs · provider ratings
Sporting Braga
Benfica
Goalkeepers
Defenders
Midfielders
Forwards
Came on
Bench
Sporting Braga
- 12 Tiago Sá GK —
- 15 Paulo Oliveira DEF on
- 62 Nuno Matos DEF —
- 17 Gabriel Moscardo MID on
- 27 Florian Grillitsch MID on
- 41 Yanis da Rocha MID —
- 50 Diego Rodrigues MID —
- 39 Fran Navarro ATT on
- 77 Gabri Martínez ATT on
Benfica
- 50 Diogo Ferreira GK —
- 4 António Silva DEF —
- 64 Gonçalo Oliveira DEF —
- 16 Manu Silva MID —
- 84 João Rego MID —
- 9 Franjo Ivanović ATT on
- 21 Andreas Schjelderup ATT —
- 25 Gianluca Prestianni ATT on
- 67 Rodrigo Rêgo ATT —
Match sheet
- Stadium
- Estádio Municipal de Braga, Braga
Player ratings
Ratings from the data provider, scale 1–10.
- Player of the match · Sporting Braga Rodrigo Zalazar
- 2. place · Benfica Georgiy Sudakov
- 3. place · Benfica Nicolás Otamendi
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