Primeira Liga 2026/27, matchday 2: every number from the 8 matches

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28 goals in 8 matches — 3.50 a game, against 2.68 across all 305 matches of 2025/26. 3 home wins, 1 draw, 4 away wins. Results, goals by minute, cards, shots, possession, xG and player ratings — all of it on one page.

Results

Match	HT	xG	Shots	On target	Home poss.
Sporting CP 3–2 Vitoria Guimaraes	3–0	1.12–1.21	5–12	3–3	56%
Alverca 2–2 Estrela	0–0	1.75–1.29	14–10	4–7	46%
Academico Viseu 0–1 Santa Clara	0–1	0.69–1.26	10–8	1–2	60%
Rio Ave 0–2 FC Porto	0–1	0.58–1.97	13–14	1–6	48%
Nacional 2–0 Estoril	0–0	2.08–0.82	20–9	3–5	59%
Arouca 4–0 Moreirense	0–0	—–—	—–—	—–—	—
Famalicao 1–2 Maritimo	—–—	—–—	—–—	—–—	—
Casa Pia 0–7 Benfica	0–2	0.12–3.04	3–20	0–8	36%

The heaviest match was Casa Pia 0–7 Benfica with 7 goals. 3 of 8 matches had both clubs scoring, 5 went over 2.5 goals, and 5 clubs failed to score. 7 goals came before half-time and 21 after it; 3 arrived inside the first 15 minutes and 0 after the 75th. The earliest goal of the round came in minute 3, the latest in minute 69. 0 of the 15 goals were penalties and 2 were own goals; the round produced 13 yellow cards and 0 red. The minute-by-minute feed carries 15 of the 28 goals, so every count in this paragraph is a floor, not a total; the scores and half-time scores above are complete.

Every match, in detail

Sporting CP 3–2 Vitoria Guimaraes 2026-08-14 19:15 UTC · half-time 3–0 · 4-2-3-1 v 4-2-3-1

Goals

9' Flávio Gonçalves Sporting CP assist Fotis Ioannidis
22' Fotis Ioannidis Sporting CP assist Geny Catamo
41' Sergi Altimira Sporting CP assist Fotis Ioannidis
66' Samu Vitoria Guimaraes assist Miguel Nogueira
69' Alioune Ndoye Vitoria Guimaraes assist Tony Strata

Cards

🟨 24' Sergi Altimira Sporting CP
🟨 26' Thiago Balieiro Vitoria Guimaraes
🟨 38' Óscar Rivas Vitoria Guimaraes
🟨 55' Geny Catamo Sporting CP
🟨 64' Miguel Nogueira Vitoria Guimaraes
🟨 71' Eduardo Quaresma Sporting CP
🟨 78' Gustavo Silva Vitoria Guimaraes

Best rated

8.5 Fotis Ioannidis Sporting CP · 1 goal, 2 assists, 1 shots, 3/8 duels
8.2 Sergi Altimira Sporting CP · 1 goal, 1 shots, 7/11 duels
8.0 Samu Vitoria Guimaraes · 1 goal, 5 shots, 3/7 duels

Sporting CP · Vitoria Guimaraes

1.12	xG	1.21
1.12	xG first half	0.40
5	Shots	12
3	On target	3
3	Shots in the box	11
2	Blocked	2
5	Corners	1
56%	Possession	44%
508	Passes	396
444	Passes completed	330
1	Saves	0
12	Fouls	21
2	Offsides	0
4	Yellow cards	4

source: full match archive

Alverca 2–2 Estrela 2026-08-15 14:30 UTC · half-time 0–0

FC Alverca Sports Complex

Goals

none

Best rated

8.2 Abraham Marcus Estrela · 1 goal, 2 shots, 7/16 duels
7.6 Isaac James Alverca · 1 assist, 4/5 duels
7.3 Ian Luccas Alverca · 1 goal, 1 shots, 2/3 duels

Alverca · Estrela

1.75	xG	1.29
0.64	xG first half	0.92
14	Shots	10
4	On target	7
10	Shots in the box	8
1	Blocked	0
2	Corners	0
46%	Possession	54%
331	Passes	397
268	Passes completed	334
5	Saves	2
10	Fouls	12
2	Offsides	1
2	Yellow cards	4
1	Red cards	0

source: full match archive

Academico Viseu 0–1 Santa Clara 2026-08-15 17:00 UTC · half-time 0–1

Goals

none

Best rated

7.3 Guilherme Romão Santa Clara · 6/9 duels
7.3 Robinho Academico Viseu · 10/15 duels
7.3 Lorougnon Gohi Academico Viseu · 3/4 duels

Academico Viseu · Santa Clara

0.69	xG	1.26
0.09	xG first half	1.24
10	Shots	8
1	On target	2
6	Shots in the box	5
1	Blocked	3
4	Corners	2
60%	Possession	40%
471	Passes	317
409	Passes completed	241
1	Saves	1
11	Fouls	15
1	Offsides	1
1	Yellow cards	3

source: full match archive

Rio Ave 0–2 FC Porto 2026-08-15 19:30 UTC · half-time 0–1

Goals

none

Best rated

8.5 Jakub Kiwior FC Porto · 6/9 duels
7.6 Jan Bednarek FC Porto · 5/10 duels
7.6 Nehuén Pérez FC Porto · 1 goal, 1 shots, 3/4 duels

Rio Ave · FC Porto

0.58	xG	1.97
0.34	xG first half	0.67
13	Shots	14
1	On target	6
5	Shots in the box	9
4	Blocked	3
6	Corners	6
48%	Possession	52%
401	Passes	441
331	Passes completed	371
4	Saves	1
1	Fouls	10
1	Offsides	3

source: full match archive

Nacional 2–0 Estoril 2026-08-16 14:30 UTC · half-time 0–0

Goals

none

Best rated

8.7 Ze Vitor Nacional · 1 goal, 2 shots, 4/9 duels
8.6 Léo Santos Nacional · 1 goal, 1 assist, 2 shots, 7/11 duels
7.7 Renato Marin Nacional · 5 saves

Nacional · Estoril

2.08	xG	0.82
0.55	xG first half	0.69
20	Shots	9
3	On target	5
10	Shots in the box	4
8	Blocked	1
7	Corners	4
59%	Possession	41%
453	Passes	315
390	Passes completed	251
5	Saves	1
13	Fouls	13
1	Offsides	0
2	Yellow cards	4
0	Red cards	1

source: full match archive

Arouca 4–0 Moreirense 2026-08-16 17:00 UTC · half-time 0–0

Goals

23' Maracas (og) Arouca
30' J. Fontan Arouca assist H. Lee
45+1' I. Barbero Arouca assist N. Djouahra

Cards

🟨 13' Maracas Moreirense
🟨 16' J. Sanchez Arouca
🟨 41' I. Barbero Arouca
🟨 44' Kiko Moreirense

Arouca · Moreirense

no match statistics

source: events only

Famalicao 1–2 Maritimo 2026-08-16 19:30 UTC · half-time None–None

Estadio Municipal de Famalicao

Goals

none

Famalicao · Maritimo

no match statistics

source: events only

Casa Pia 0–7 Benfica 2026-08-17 19:15 UTC · half-time 0–2 · 4-3-3 v 4-2-3-1

Goals

3' Gianluca Prestianni Benfica
14' Silva Rafa Benfica assist Vangelis Pavlidis
47' Vangelis Pavlidis Benfica
49' Vangelis Pavlidis Benfica
54' Vangelis Pavlidis Benfica assist Leandro Barreiro
58' Lawrence Ofori (og) Benfica
61' Jhon Durán Benfica assist Alexander Bah

Cards

🟨 62' Sebastian Perez Casa Pia
🟨 79' Domingos Jose Gabriel Bandeira Casa Pia

Best rated

10.0 Vangelis Pavlidis Benfica · 3 goals, 1 assist, 3 shots, 6/9 duels
8.6 Gianluca Prestianni Benfica · 1 goal, 3 shots, 10/11 duels
7.6 Silva Rafa Benfica · 1 goal, 1 shots, 5/5 duels

Casa Pia · Benfica

0.12	xG	3.04
0.08	xG first half	1.27
3	Shots	20
0	On target	8
3	Shots in the box	14
0	Blocked	8
1	Corners	3
36%	Possession	64%
342	Passes	621
272	Passes completed	556
2	Saves	0
11	Fouls	13
1	Offsides	4
3	Yellow cards	0
1	Red cards	0

source: full match archive

Every club, one row each

Club		Opponent	Score	xG	Shots	OT	In box	Cor	Poss	Passes	Saves	Fouls	Yel
Benfica	A	Casa Pia	7–0	3.04	20	8	14	3	64%	621	0	13	0
Arouca	H	Moreirense	4–0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
FC Porto	A	Rio Ave	2–0	1.97	14	6	9	6	52%	441	1	10	0
Nacional	H	Estoril	2–0	2.08	20	3	10	7	59%	453	5	13	2
Sporting CP	H	Vitoria Guimaraes	3–2	1.12	5	3	3	5	56%	508	1	12	4
Maritimo	A	Famalicao	2–1	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
Santa Clara	A	Academico Viseu	1–0	1.26	8	2	5	2	40%	317	1	15	3
Alverca	H	Estrela	2–2	1.75	14	4	10	2	46%	331	5	10	2
Estrela	A	Alverca	2–2	1.29	10	7	8	0	54%	397	2	12	4
Vitoria Guimaraes	A	Sporting CP	2–3	1.21	12	3	11	1	44%	396	0	21	4
Famalicao	H	Maritimo	1–2	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
Academico Viseu	H	Santa Clara	0–1	0.69	10	1	6	4	60%	471	1	11	1
Estoril	A	Nacional	0–2	0.82	9	5	4	4	41%	315	1	13	4
Rio Ave	H	FC Porto	0–2	0.58	13	1	5	6	48%	401	4	1	0
Moreirense	A	Arouca	0–4	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0
Casa Pia	H	Benfica	0–7	0.12	3	0	3	1	36%	342	2	11	3

Benfica had the most of the ball (64 per cent) at Casa Pia; Nacional took the most shots (20).

Goals against xG

xG is the provider's shot-quality model, not ours; we publish it because it is the same measure across every match here. One matchday is far too small to call anyone lucky — this is a record of what happened, not a verdict.

Club	Opponent	Goals	xG	Goals − xG	Conceded	xG faced	Saved against xG
Benfica	Casa Pia	7	3.04	+3.96	0	0.12	+0.12
Sporting CP	Vitoria Guimaraes	3	1.12	+1.88	2	1.21	-0.79
Vitoria Guimaraes	Sporting CP	2	1.21	+0.79	3	1.12	-1.88
Estrela	Alverca	2	1.29	+0.71	2	1.75	-0.25
Alverca	Estrela	2	1.75	+0.25	2	1.29	-0.71
FC Porto	Rio Ave	2	1.97	+0.03	0	0.58	+0.58
Nacional	Estoril	2	2.08	-0.08	0	0.82	+0.82
Casa Pia	Benfica	0	0.12	-0.12	7	3.04	-3.96
Santa Clara	Academico Viseu	1	1.26	-0.26	0	0.69	+0.69
Rio Ave	FC Porto	0	0.58	-0.58	2	1.97	-0.03
Academico Viseu	Santa Clara	0	0.69	-0.69	1	1.26	+0.26
Estoril	Nacional	0	0.82	-0.82	2	2.08	+0.08

Benfica scored 3.96 goals more than the model expected of their chances; Estoril scored 0.82 fewer. The last column is the same subtraction at the other end: how many goals a club conceded against the xG of the shots it faced.

One column we removed. The feed also carries a field called “goals prevented”, which looks like a goalkeeping measure. In all 8 matches of this round it is identical for both clubs (Sporting CP–Vitoria Guimaraes -2.16, Alverca–Estrela -0.01, Academico Viseu–Santa Clara +0.14, and so on), so it cannot be a per-club number and we do not publish it rather than guess at what it means.

Scorers and assists

17 of the 28 goals have an assist recorded against them. Assists come from the full match archive where it has arrived (5 matches) and from the live event feed otherwise, which records fewer of them — so this is a floor, not a count.

Player	Club	Goals	Assists
Vangelis Pavlidis	Benfica	3	1
Fotis Ioannidis	Sporting CP	1	2
Léo Santos	Nacional	1	1
Abraham Marcus	Estrela	1	0
Alioune Ndoye	Vitoria Guimaraes	1	0
Borja Sainz	FC Porto	1	0
Flávio Gonçalves	Sporting CP	1	0
Gianluca Prestianni	Benfica	1	0
Gonçalo Paciência	Santa Clara	1	0
I. Barbero	Arouca	1	0
Ian Luccas	Alverca	1	0
J. Fontan	Arouca	1	0
Jhon Durán	Benfica	1	0
Leandro Antonetti	Estrela	1	0
Nehuén Pérez	FC Porto	1	0
Samu	Vitoria Guimaraes	1	0
Sergi Altimira	Sporting CP	1	0
Silva Rafa	Benfica	1	0
Vivaldo	Alverca	1	0
Ze Vitor	Nacional	1	0
Alexander Bah	Benfica	0	1
Daniel Júnior	Nacional	0	1
Gabri Veiga	FC Porto	0	1
Geny Catamo	Sporting CP	0	1
H. Lee	Arouca	0	1
Hwang In-beom	FC Porto	0	1
Isaac James	Alverca	0	1
Leandro Barreiro	Benfica	0	1
Miguel Nogueira	Vitoria Guimaraes	0	1
N. Djouahra	Arouca	0	1
Rafa Soares	Estrela	0	1
Rayan Lucas	Alverca	0	1
Tony Strata	Vitoria Guimaraes	0	1

Player ratings, top 25

Ratings are the provider's, over the 6 matches whose player detail has arrived; 271 player appearances in total.

Player	Club	Rating	Min	G	A	Sh	Key p.	Duels	Tkl	Int	Saves
Vangelis Pavlidis	Benfica	10.0	59	3	1	3	2	6/9	1	0	0
Ze Vitor	Nacional	8.7	90	1	0	2	2	4/9	2	0	0
Léo Santos	Nacional	8.6	90	1	1	2	3	7/11	1	0	0
Gianluca Prestianni	Benfica	8.6	90	1	0	3	3	10/11	4	1	0
Fotis Ioannidis	Sporting CP	8.5	75	1	2	1	2	3/8	0	0	0
Jakub Kiwior	FC Porto	8.5	90	0	0	0	2	6/9	2	0	0
Sergi Altimira	Sporting CP	8.2	96	1	0	1	0	7/11	4	2	0
Abraham Marcus	Estrela	8.2	90	1	0	2	2	7/16	1	0	0
Samu	Vitoria Guimaraes	8.0	88	1	0	5	1	3/7	3	0	0
Tony Strata	Vitoria Guimaraes	7.7	51	0	1	0	3	5/7	4	1	0
Renato Marin	Nacional	7.7	90	0	0	0	0	0/0	0	0	5
Isaac James	Alverca	7.6	75	0	1	0	3	4/5	3	2	0
Jan Bednarek	FC Porto	7.6	90	0	0	0	1	5/10	1	1	0
Nehuén Pérez	FC Porto	7.6	70	1	0	1	0	3/4	0	1	0
Silva Rafa	Benfica	7.6	59	1	0	1	1	5/5	1	0	0
Tamás Nikitscher	Rio Ave	7.5	90	0	0	1	1	9/10	5	0	0
Daniel Júnior	Nacional	7.5	81	0	1	1	1	5/8	0	0	0
Alexander Bah	Benfica	7.5	90	0	1	0	2	1/3	0	2	0
Geny Catamo	Sporting CP	7.3	66	0	1	0	1	5/10	1	0	0
Flávio Gonçalves	Sporting CP	7.3	66	1	0	1	0	4/9	0	0	0
Ian Luccas	Alverca	7.3	83	1	0	1	0	2/3	0	1	0
Rayan Lucas	Alverca	7.3	31	0	1	0	1	3/4	3	0	0
Guilherme Romão	Santa Clara	7.3	90	0	0	0	1	6/9	1	0	0
Robinho	Academico Viseu	7.3	90	0	0	0	1	10/15	7	1	0
Lorougnon Gohi	Academico Viseu	7.3	15	0	0	0	2	3/4	1	0	0

Matchday 2 against the whole of 2025/26

One round is 8 matches and last season was 305. Every difference below is well inside what 8 matches can produce by chance; it is here as a record, not as a trend.

Measure	Matchday 2	2025/26 average	Difference
Goals per match	3.50	2.68	+0.82
Goals in the first half, per match	0.88	1.20	-0.32
Shots per club	11.5	12.1	-0.6
Shots on target per club	3.6	4.1	-0.5
xG per club	1.33	1.31	+0.02
Corners per club	3.4	4.7	-1.3
Passes per club	416	404	+12
Fouls per club	11.8	13.8	-1.9
Yellow cards per club	2.25	2.50	-0.25
Saves per club	1.9	2.8	-0.9
Home wins (share)	0.38	0.42	-0.04
Draws (share)	0.12	0.27	-0.15

Where these numbers come from

Our own database, built from the same feed every match here uses. Team figures for 6 of 8 matches, goals and cards by minute for all 8, player-level detail for 6. Crowds and referees are as published for the 0 matches that carry them . Nothing on this page is a projection.

What is missing, stated plainly. the event feed is missing 13 of the 28 goals, so goal minutes, penalties and the scorer table are floors; 2 of the 8 matches (Arouca–Moreirense, Famalicao–Maritimo) have team figures but no player-level detail yet — the archive feed delivers those a day later, so player ratings below cover 6 matches, not 8; attendance is published for 0 of 8 matches, so there is no average to give; the 2025/26 xG baseline is measured on 303 of 305 matches.

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