Sporting CP 2-1 Arouca: result and report
Liga Portugal · Sunday 8 October 2023
Result
Sporting CP 2-1 Arouca
Liga Portugal · Sunday 8 October 2023, 19:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Sporting CP 2-1 Arouca: match report
Sporting CP beat Arouca 2-1 in Liga Portugal on Sunday 8 October 2023. It was 1-0 at half-time.
Viktor Gyökeres opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Sporting CP's goals came from Viktor Gyökeres (31') and Hidemasa Morita (68'). Arouca scored through Rafa Mújica (52').
Discipline: Sporting CP received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Arouca received 6 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Sporting CP were 2nd on 19 points from 7 and Arouca 15th on 6 points from 7. Sporting CP went on to finish that season 1st with 90 points, and Arouca 7th with 46.
Sporting CP lined up in a 3-4-3 and Arouca in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Pedro Gonçalves of Sporting CP (8.4), ahead of Gonçalo Inácio (7.8).
Going into the match Sporting CP's last five read W-W-W-D-W and Arouca's L-L-L-D-D.
Key events
- 29'Yellow card · Ousmane Diomande
- 29'Yellow card · Rafa Mújica
- 31'Goal · Viktor Gyökeres
- 42'Second yellow · Ousmane Diomande
- 45+2'Yellow card · Marcus Edwards
- 52'Goal · Rafa Mújica
- 58'Yellow card · Cristo González
- 60'Yellow card · Weverson
- 62'Yellow card · Eduardo Quaresma
- 64'Yellow card · Rafael Fernandes
- 68'Goal · Hidemasa Morita
- 74'Yellow card · Ignacio de Arruabarrena
- 87'Second yellow · Rafael Fernandes
- 90+3'Yellow card · Pedro Santos
Team news
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Sporting CP line-up (3-4-3)
Antonio Adán, Ousmane Diomande, Sebastián Coates, Gonçalo Inácio, Ricardo Esgaio, Morten Hjulmand, Hidemasa Morita, Nuno Santos, Marcus Edwards, Viktor Gyökeres, Pedro Gonçalves
Arouca line-up (3-4-3)
Ignacio de Arruabarrena, Tiago Esgaio, Rafael Fernandes, Javi Montero, Bogdan Milovanov, Morlaye Sylla, Uri Busquets, Weverson, Cristo González, Rafa Mujica, Alfonso Trezza