Porto 5-1 Arouca: result and report

Liga Portugal · Wednesday 28 December 2022

Result

Porto 5-1 Arouca

Liga Portugal · Wednesday 28 December 2022, 21:15 UTC · half-time 3-0

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Porto 5-1 Arouca: match report

Porto defeated Arouca 5-1 in Liga Portugal on Wednesday 28 December 2022. It was 3-0 at half-time.

Otávio opened the scoring in the 1st minute. Porto's goals came from Otávio (1'), Mehdi Taremi (18'), Mehdi Taremi (34'), Mehdi Taremi (50') and an own goal by Jerome Opoku (70'). Arouca scored through Bruno Marques (75').

Discipline: Porto received 1 yellow card; Arouca received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Porto were 2nd on 29 points from 13 and Arouca 10th on 19 points from 13. Porto went on to finish that season 2nd with 85 points, and Arouca 5th with 54.

Porto lined up in a 4-4-2 and Arouca in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Mehdi Taremi of Porto (9.9), ahead of Otávio (9.3).

Going into the match Porto's last five read W-W-D-L-W and Arouca's L-W-W-D-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 1'Goal · OtávioPorto · 1-0
  • 18'Goal · Mehdi TaremiPorto · 2-0
  • 34'Goal · Mehdi TaremiPorto · 3-0
  • 36'Yellow card · Alan RuizArouca
  • 49'Yellow card · Morlaye SyllaArouca
  • 50'Goal · Mehdi TaremiPorto · 4-0
  • 59'Yellow card · Iván MarcanoPorto
  • 70'Own goal · Jerome OpokuPorto · 5-0
  • 75'Goal · Bruno MarquesArouca · 5-1
  • 85'Yellow card · João BassoArouca

Team news

Unavailable

  • Zaidu SanusiPorto · injury (Tear in the abductor muscle)
  • PepePorto · injury (Ulnar Fracture)
  • EvanilsonPorto · injury (Unknown Injury)

Porto line-up (4-4-2)

Diogo Costa, João Mário, Fábio Cardoso, Iván Marcano, Wendell, Otávio, Matheus Uribe, Marko Grujić, Galeno, Gabriel Veron, Mehdi Taremi

Arouca line-up (4-3-3)

Ignacio de Arruabarrena, Bogdan Milovanov, Basso, Jerome Opoku, Quaresma, André Bukia, Alan Ruiz, Ismaila Soro, Bruno Pinto, Morlaye Sylla, Oday Dabbagh