Santa Clara 4-0 Rio Ave: result and report

Liga Portugal · Sunday 6 September 2026

Result

Santa Clara 4-0 Rio Ave

Liga Portugal · Sunday 6 September 2026, 14:30 UTC · Estádio de São Miguel, Ponta Delgada · half-time 1-0

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Santa Clara 4-0 Rio Ave: match report

Santa Clara defeated Rio Ave 4-0 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 6 September 2026 at Estádio de São Miguel. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Brenner opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Santa Clara's goals came from Brenner (3'), Tiago Ribeiro (47'), Vinícius Lopes (52') and Fernando (90'). Rio Ave did not score.

Discipline: Santa Clara received 1 yellow card; Rio Ave received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Santa Clara were 5th on 8 points from 4 and Rio Ave 14th on 3 points from 4. In the current table Santa Clara are 4th on 21 points and Rio Ave are 16th on 7 points.

Santa Clara lined up in a 4-3-3 and Rio Ave in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Vinícius Lopes of Santa Clara (8.4), ahead of Pedro Pacheco (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Santa Clara wins, 2 draws and 3 for Rio Ave.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · BrennerSanta Clara · 1-0
  • 47'Goal · Tiago RibeiroSanta Clara · 2-0
  • 52'Goal · Vinícius LopesSanta Clara · 3-0
  • 83'Yellow card · Tamás NikitscherRio Ave
  • 84'Yellow card · Dani BorgesSanta Clara
  • 90'Goal · FernandoSanta Clara · 4-0

Form and table

#TeamPWDLGFGAGDPtsForm
4Santa Clara10631156+921WDWLW
16Rio Ave10217923-147DLWLL

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Head-to-head

8 meetings: Santa Clara 3, draws 2, Rio Ave 3.

Team news

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Santa Clara line-up (4-3-3)

Lucas França, Lucas Soares, Pedro Pacheco, Emanuel Moreira, Guilherme Romão, Djé, Pedro Ferreira, Tiago Ribeiro, Vinícius Lopes, Gonçalo Paciência, Brenner

Rio Ave line-up (4-2-3-1)

Ennio Van Der Gouw, Georgios Liavas, Francisco Petrasso, Gustavo Mancha, Marios Vrousai, Tamás Nikitscher, Andreas Ntoi, Diogo Bezerra, Jalen Blesa, Dario Spikic, Tamble Monteiro

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