Sporting CP 4-0 Rio Ave: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 28 December 2025
Result
Sporting CP 4-0 Rio Ave
Liga Portugal · Sunday 28 December 2025, 20:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Sporting CP 4-0 Rio Ave: match report
Sporting CP defeated Rio Ave 4-0 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 28 December 2025. The half-time score was 1-0.
Luis Suárez opened the scoring in the 34th minute. Sporting CP's goals came from Luis Suárez (34'), Maxi Araújo (53'), Luis Suárez (60') and Luis Suárez (61'). Rio Ave did not score.
Discipline: Sporting CP received 1 yellow card; Rio Ave received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Sporting CP were 2nd on 38 points from 15 and Rio Ave 11th on 17 points from 15. Sporting CP went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Rio Ave 13th with 36.
Sporting CP lined up in a 4-4-2 and Rio Ave in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Luis Suárez of Sporting CP (10.0), ahead of Maxi Araújo (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Sporting CP wins, 1 draw and 0 for Rio Ave.
Key events
- 34'Goal · Luis Suárez
- 36'Yellow card · Gonçalo Inácio
- 38'Yellow card · João Tomé
- 53'Goal · Maxi Araújo
- 60'Goal · Luis Suárez
- 61'Goal · Luis Suárez
Head-to-head
Team news
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Sporting CP line-up (4-4-2)
Rui Silva, Georgios Vagiannidis, Eduardo Quaresma, Gonçalo Inácio, Ricardo Mangas, Francisco Trincão, Morten Hjulmand, João Simões, Maxi Araújo, Fotis Ioannidis, Luis Suárez
Rio Ave line-up (3-4-3)
Cezary Miszta, Francisco Petrasso, Jakub Brabec, Nelson Abbey, João Tomé, Andreas Ntoi, Georgios Liavas, Nikolaos Athanasiou, Ole Pohlmann, Karem Zoabi, Dario Spikic