Sporting CP — Nacional 2:0, 5 September: match result

match finished Primeira Liga · Matchday 5 Saturday 5 September · 19:30 UTC

Sporting CP 3th · 13 pts WDDW

2 : 0 1st half 1:0

Nacional 12th · 4 pts LLLL

venue to be confirmed · referee J. Pinheiro

Match predictionSafe

Nacional to lose by two at most

93% · Nacional games average 3 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “Nacional to lose by two at most”, and the match finished 2:0.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Sporting CP 46% draw 26% Nacional 28%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Sporting CP win, and the match finished 2:0. Fans backed Sporting CP win — they got it right.

fans 43 votes

Sporting CP 60% draw 14% Nacional 26%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

M. Araujo 5'

S. Altimira 20'

L. Suarez penalty 1-0 32'

Deivison for Leo Santos 46'

M. Jensen 48'

F. Goncalves assist: L. Suarez 2-0 49'

A. Obando for Pablo Ruan 62'

C. Labidi for M. Jensen 62'

Luis Guilherme for G. Catamo 67'

F. Ioannidis for L. Suarez 67'

N. Irankunda for R. Zalazar 67'

M. Djalo for S. Gavriel 73'

G. Vagiannidis for M. Araujo 78'

Daniel Junior for M. Baeza 80'

S. Andersen for S. Altimira 87'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Sporting CP 4-2-3-1 · Rui Borges 3-4-2-1 · Giao Joao Nacional

Rui Silva  
Iván Fresneda  6 Zeno Debast  25 Gonçalo Inácio  20 Maximiliano Araújo  
Sergi Altimira  77 Issa Doumbia  
Geny Catamo  17 Rodrigo Zalazar  58 Flávio Gonçalves  
Luis Javier Suárez  

Pablo Messias Cardozo  
Stavros Gavriel  7 Markus Jensen  
Wesley Gasolina  6 Matheus Dias  8 Miguel Baeza  21 Williams Kokolo  
Léo Santos  33 Francisco Gonçalves  38 Ze Vitor  
Renato Marin  

Sporting CP bench

73Eduardo Felicíssimo
72Eduardo Quaresma
7Fotis Ioannidis
13Georgios Vagiannidis
28Jesse Derry
30Kaique
31Luís Guilherme
19Nestory Irankunda
21Pedro Lima
9Rafael Nel
50Rodrigo Dias
4Silas Andersen

Nacional bench

9Allen Obando
15Chiheb Labidi
31Danel Dongmo
2Daniel De la Cruz
10Daniel Júnior
88Deivison Souza Brito
17Fernando Nava
50Kevyn
20Matchoi Djaló

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

67%Possession33%

19Shots3

8Shots on target2

10Shots off target0

1Blocked shots1

10Shots inside box0

9Shots outside box3

136Attacks78

63Dangerous attacks12

12Corners0

1Offsides2

10Fouls7

2Yellow cards1

2Saves6

656Passes318

584Accurate passes255

0Free kicks0

0Throw-ins0

0Goal kicks0

1Penalties0

Sporting CP

NacionalThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Sporting CP and Nacional met on matchday 5 of the Primeira Liga on 5 September. Final score — 2:0.

Sporting CP sit 3th on 13 points after 4 matches (2 wins, 2 draws, 0 losses), unbeaten in 4 matches. Nacional sit 12th on 4 points after 4 matches (0 wins, 0 draws, 4 losses), winless in 4 matches.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Sporting CP last five Nacional

WDDW form LLLL

4 Matches 4

2 — 2 — 0 Wins — draws — defeats 0 — 0 — 4

8 — 4 Scored — conceded 3 — 12

2 Points per game 0

2 Goals scored per game 0.75

1 Clean sheets 0

0 Failed to score 2

unbeaten in 4 Current streak winless in 4

Sporting CP at home: 2 matches, 1 win, 1 draw, 0 losses, goals 4—2, 2 points per match.

Nacional away: 2 matches, 0 wins, 0 draws, 2 losses, goals 2—5, 0 points per match.

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
2	Benfica	8	6	1	1	24—7	19
3	Sporting CP	8	5	3	0	20—9	18
4	Santa Clara	8	5	3	0	12—4	18
…
15	Vitória Guimarães	7	1	2	4	5—8	5
16	Nacional	8	1	1	6	9—18	4
17	Casa Pia	7	1	1	5	3—16	4

Full Primeira Liga table