Sporting CP 2-0 Arouca: result and report
Liga Portugal · Saturday 5 March 2022
Result
Sporting CP 2-0 Arouca
Liga Portugal · Saturday 5 March 2022, 20:30 UTC · half-time 0-0
Sporting CP 2-0 Arouca: match report
Sporting CP won against Arouca 2-0 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 5 March 2022. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Islam Slimani opened the scoring in the 46th minute. Sporting CP's goals came from Islam Slimani (46') and Islam Slimani (52'). Arouca did not score.
Discipline: Sporting CP received 2 yellow cards; Arouca received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Sporting CP were 2nd on 58 points from 24 and Arouca 15th on 22 points from 24. Sporting CP went on to finish that season 2nd with 85 points, and Arouca 15th with 31.
Sporting CP lined up in a 3-4-3 and Arouca in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Islam Slimani of Sporting CP (8.4), ahead of Matheus Nunes (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Sporting CP win, 0 draws and 0 for Arouca.
Going into the match Sporting CP's last five read D-W-D-W-W and Arouca's D-W-L-L-D.
Key events
- 15'Yellow card · Tiago Esgaio
- 26'Yellow card · Dário Essugo
- 36'Yellow card · Sebastián Coates
- 40'Yellow card · Bruno Pinto
- 46'Goal · Islam Slimani
- 52'Goal · Islam Slimani
- 65'Yellow card · Nino Galovic
- 85'Yellow card · Alan Ruiz
Head-to-head
Team news
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Sporting CP line-up (3-4-3)
Antonio Adán, Gonçalo Inácio, Sebastián Coates, Matheus Reis, Ricardo Esgaio, Dário Essugo, Matheus Nunes, Rúben Vinagre, Pablo Sarabia, Nuno Santos, Islam Slimani
Arouca line-up (4-3-3)
Victor Braga, Tiago Esgaio, Basso, Nino Galović, Quaresma, Pedro Moreira, Leandro Silva, Bruno Pinto, André Bukia, André Silva, Antony