Nacional 1-2 Arouca: result and report
Liga Portugal · Saturday 1 February 2025
Result
Nacional 1-2 Arouca
Liga Portugal · Saturday 1 February 2025, 15:30 UTC · half-time 1-2
Nacional 1-2 Arouca: match report
Nacional lost to Arouca 1-2 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 1 February 2025. The half-time score was 1-2.
Pablo Gozálbez opened the scoring in the 5th minute. Nacional's goal came from Ulisses (45+1'). Arouca scored through Pablo Gozálbez (5') and Henrique Araújo (26', penalty).
Discipline: Nacional received 6 yellow cards; Arouca received 1 yellow card and 1 red card.
Going into the game Nacional were 13th on 19 points from 19 and Arouca 14th on 19 points from 19. Nacional went on to finish that season 14th with 34 points, and Arouca 11th with 38.
Nacional lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Arouca in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Fuki Yamada of Nacional (7.8), ahead of Pablo Gozálbez (7.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nacional win, 4 draws and 4 for Arouca.
Going into the match Nacional's last five read L-W-W-L-D and Arouca's W-D-W-D-L.
Key events
- 5'Goal · Pablo Gozálbez
- 24'Yellow card · Ze Vitor
- 26'Penalty goal · Henrique Araújo
- 37'Yellow card · Daniel Penha
- 45+1'Goal · Ulisses
- 52'Yellow card · Ulisses
- 62'Red card · Boris Popović
- 71'Yellow card · Luís Esteves
- 87'Yellow card · Chiheb Labidi
- 90+8'Yellow card · André Sousa
- 90+8'Yellow card · Pedro Santos
Head-to-head
Team news
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Nacional line-up (4-2-3-1)
Lucas França, Garcia, Ulisses, Ze Vitor, José Gomes, Djibril Soumaré, Luís André Leite Esteves, Dudu Teodora, Daniel Penha, Bruno Costa, Joel Tagueu
Arouca line-up (4-2-3-1)
Nico Mantl, Tiago Esgaio, Chico Lamba, Boris Popović, Weverson, Taichi Fukui, Bruno Pinto, Alfonso Trezza, Pablo Gozálbez, Morlaye Sylla, Henrique Araújo