Sporting CP 2-2 Arouca: result and report

Liga Portugal · Saturday 19 September 2026

Result

Sporting CP 2-2 Arouca

Liga Portugal · Saturday 19 September 2026, 19:30 UTC · Estádio José Alvalade, Lisboa · half-time 2-0

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Sporting CP 2-2 Arouca: match report

Sporting CP drew with Arouca 2-2 in Liga Portugal on Saturday 19 September 2026 at Estádio José Alvalade. The half-time score was 2-0.

Gonçalo Inácio opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Sporting CP's goals came from Gonçalo Inácio (3') and Luis Suárez (17'). Arouca scored through José Fontán (81', penalty) and Dylan Nandín (87').

Discipline: Sporting CP received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card; Arouca received 5 yellow cards.

Going into the game Sporting CP were 3rd on 14 points from 6 and Arouca 5th on 10 points from 6. In the current table Sporting CP are 3rd on 21 points and Arouca are 5th on 20 points.

Sporting CP 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 Gonçalo Inácio of Sporting CP (7.5), level with José Fontán (7.5).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Sporting CP wins, 1 draw and 0 for Arouca.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Gonçalo InácioSporting CP · 1-0
  • 17'Goal · Luis SuárezSporting CP · 2-0
  • 36'Yellow card · Espen van EeArouca
  • 44'Yellow card · Javi SánchezArouca
  • 51'Yellow card · José FontánArouca
  • 54'Red card · Zeno DebastSporting CP
  • 61'Yellow card · Pedro SantosArouca
  • 61'Yellow card · Luis SuárezSporting CP
  • 80'Yellow card · Eduardo QuaresmaSporting CP
  • 81'Penalty goal · José FontánArouca · 2-1
  • 87'Goal · Dylan NandínArouca · 2-2
  • 90+2'Yellow card · Brian MansillaArouca
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Maxi AraújoSporting CP
  • 90+8'Yellow card · Gonçalo InácioSporting CP

Form and table

#TeamPWDLGFGAGDPtsForm
3Sporting CP106312311+1221DDWLW
5Arouca10622137+620LDWWW

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Head-to-head

6 meetings: Sporting CP 5, draws 1, Arouca 0.

Team news

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Sporting CP line-up (4-2-3-1)

Rui Silva, Iván Fresneda Corraliza, Zeno Debast, Gonçalo Inácio, Maxi Araújo, Sergi Altimira, Issa Doumbia, Geny Catamo, Rodrigo Zalazar, Nestory Irankunda, Luis Suárez

Arouca line-up (4-2-3-1)

Ignacio de Arruabarrena, Tiago Esgaio, Javi Sánchez, José Fontán, Orest Lebedenko, Espen van Ee, Taichi Fukui, Alfonso Trezza, Mateo Flores, Naïs Djouahra, Iván Barbero

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