Arouca 3-3 Rio Ave: result and report
Liga Portugal · Saturday 23 August 2025
Result
Arouca 3-3 Rio Ave
Liga Portugal · Saturday 23 August 2025, 19:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Arouca 3-3 Rio Ave: match report
Arouca drew with Rio Ave 3-3 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 23 August 2025. The half-time score was 1-0.
José Fontán opened the scoring in the 24th minute. Arouca's goals came from José Fontán (24'), Alfonso Trezza (75') and Naïs Djouahra (90+3'). Rio Ave scored through Clayton (48'), Dario Spikic (64') and Clayton (76').
Discipline: Arouca received 3 yellow cards; Rio Ave received 2 yellow cards.
Arouca went on to finish that season 9th with 42 points, and Rio Ave 13th with 36.
Arouca lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Rio Ave in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Clayton of Rio Ave (8.9), ahead of Naïs Djouahra (7.5).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Arouca wins, 3 draws and 1 for Rio Ave.
Key events
- 20'Yellow card · Hyun-ju Lee
- 24'Goal · José Fontán
- 34'Yellow card · Iván Barbero
- 36'Yellow card · Nelson Abbey
- 38'Yellow card · Andreas Ntoi
- 40'Yellow card · José Fontán
- 48'Goal · Clayton
- 64'Goal · Dario Spikic
- 75'Goal · Alfonso Trezza
- 76'Goal · Clayton
- 90+3'Goal · Naïs Djouahra
Head-to-head
Team news
Arouca line-up (4-2-3-1)
João Valido, Alex Pinto, Boris Popović, José Fontán, Amadou Dante, Pedro Santos, Taichi Fukui, Alfonso Trezza, Hyun-ju Lee, Naïs Djouahra, Iván Barbero
Rio Ave line-up (3-4-3)
Cezary Miszta, Andreas Ntoi, Jonathan Panzo, Nelson Abbey, Marios Vrousai, Theofanis Bakoulas, Brandon Aguilera, Nikolaos Athanasiou, André Luiz, Clayton, Ole Pohlmann