Nacional 1-2 Arouca: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 20 September 2025

Result

Nacional 1-2 Arouca

Liga Portugal · Saturday 20 September 2025, 14:30 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Nacional 1-2 Arouca: match report

Nacional lost to Arouca 1-2 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 20 September 2025. The half-time score was 0-0.

Jesús Ramírez opened the scoring in the 66th minute. Nacional's goal came from Jesús Ramírez (66', penalty). Arouca scored through Boris Popović (74') and Espen van Ee (89').

Discipline: Nacional received 2 yellow cards and 2 red cards; Arouca received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.

Going into the game Nacional were 14th on 4 points from 5 and Arouca 12th on 5 points from 5. Nacional went on to finish that season 14th with 34 points, and Arouca 9th with 42.

Nacional lined up in a 4-3-3 and Arouca in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to João Valido of Arouca (7.9), ahead of Boris Popović (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nacional win, 4 draws and 5 for Arouca.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 4'Missed penalty · Jesús RamírezNacional
  • 5'Yellow card · LizieroNacional
  • 57'Yellow card · José FontánArouca
  • 66'Penalty goal · Jesús RamírezNacional · 1-0
  • 74'Goal · Boris PopovićArouca · 1-1
  • 80'Red card · Matheus DiasNacional
  • 85'Second yellow · José FontánArouca
  • 89'Red card · Tiago MargaridoNacional
  • 89'Goal · Espen van EeArouca · 1-2
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Jesús RamírezNacional

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nacional 1, draws 4, Arouca 5.

Team news

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Nacional expected line-up (4-3-3)

Lucas França, João Aurélio, Léo Santos, José Gomes, Ze Vitor, Matheus Dias, Liziero, Chiheb Labidi, Paulinho Bóia, Jesús Ramírez, Witiness Quembo

Arouca line-up (4-2-3-1)

João Valido, Tiago Esgaio, Boris Popović, José Fontán, Amadou Dante, Taichi Fukui, Bruno Pinto, Alfonso Trezza, Hyun-ju Lee, Naïs Djouahra, Dylan Nandín