Porto 2-0 Rio Ave: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 14 January 2012

Result

Porto 2-0 Rio Ave

Liga Portugal · Saturday 14 January 2012, 20:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Porto 2-0 Rio Ave: match report

Porto defeated Rio Ave 2-0 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 14 January 2012. It was 1-0 at half-time.

J. Rodríguez opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. Porto's goals came from J. Rodríguez (42') and J. Rodríguez (80'). Rio Ave did not score.

Discipline: Porto received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Rio Ave received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Porto were 2nd on 34 points from 14 and Rio Ave 13th on 14 points from 14. Porto went on to finish that season 1st with 75 points, and Rio Ave 14th with 28.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Porto wins, 1 draw and 0 for Rio Ave.

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

Data as of 6 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 42'Goal · J. RodríguezPorto · 1-0
  • 48'Yellow card · MaiconPorto
  • 53'Yellow card · GasparRio Ave
  • 61'Yellow card · Bruno ChinaRio Ave
  • 80'Goal · J. RodríguezPorto · 2-0
  • 83'Yellow card · Juan IturbePorto
  • 90+4'Red card · Akio KogikuPorto

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Porto 3, draws 1, Rio Ave 0.

Team news

Porto expected line-up (4-3-3)

Helton, Álvaro Pereira, Maicon, Nicolás Otamendi, Jorge Fucile, James Rodríguez, João Moutinho, Walter, Hulk

Rio Ave line-up

Huanderson, Gaspar, Jeferson, Jean Sony Alcenat, Tiago Pinto, Jorginho, Wires, Kelvin Oliveira, João Tomás, Yazalde, Bruno China