Match Report
7 points and 11 places separated them: Rio Ave 13th with 3, Sporting CP 2nd with 10. Against a league average of 1.35 goals per team per game, Rio Ave ran at 0.5 scored and 1.75 conceded, Sporting CP at 3 and 1.25.
8 matches unbeaten backed Sporting CP's arrival, having scored in 14 consecutive games. The last-five ledger: Rio Ave 7/15, Sporting CP 13/15.
GioScore's database holds 35 meetings between the two: 5 for Rio Ave, 23 for Sporting CP and 7 drawn, at 2.77 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 40% of the meetings went to the host.
Estádio do Rio Ave Futebol Clube staged the fixture, a ground that holds 12,815. The referee was B. Ribeiro Pires Costa, with 62 matches in our database and 2.8 yellows per game on average. On the scoreboard, Sporting CP led 4-0 at the break, and no goals arrived after the restart: 0-4 the final score.
Goal scorers
Sporting CP: Flávio Gonçalves (5'), Geny Catamo (19'), Luis Suárez (26'), Luis Suárez (37')
Key stats
Possession: Rio Ave 39% · Sporting CP 61% · Total shots: 6-14 · On target: 0-7 · Corners: 2-3