Liga Portugal · Match preview
Rio Ave 0–4 
Sporting CP
- Kick-off
- Status
- Finished
- Venue
- Estádio do Rio Ave Futebol Clube
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Match overview
Final score: Rio Ave 0–4 Sporting CP.
Rio Ave are 14th in the Liga Portugal table with 7 points from 8 matches; Sporting CP are 3rd with 18 points from 8.
Last 4 results in our archive, newest first: Rio Ave W L L D; Sporting CP W W D W W.
In their last 4 settled matches Rio Ave scored 1.0 and conceded 1.3 goals per game; Sporting CP scored 2.8 and conceded 1.2 in their last 5.
The Liga Portugal averages 2.7 goals a match this season; these two clubs’ recent matches point to about 3.1. Over 2.5 landed in 53% and both teams scored in 53% of their recent games.
Before kick-off the model’s pick was Sporting CP to win at 80% probability, and it came in.
All figures come from the results archive and the league table in our data; nothing on this page is estimated. How the probabilities are produced
Settled
The model’s pre-match pick and how it went
- Pick
- Sporting CP to win
- Probability
- 80%
- Outcome
- Came in
Logged before kick-off, settled automatically against the final score and never edited afterwards. Full Liga Portugal record
Goals in recent matches
From the final scores of each club’s last settled matches: goals for and against per game, and how often over 2.5, both teams scoring and a clean sheet occurred.
| Club | P | For | Against | Over 2.5 | BTTS | Clean sheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rio Ave | 4 | 1.0 | 1.3 | 25% | 25% | 25% |
| Sporting CP | 5 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 80% | 80% | 20% |
Liga Portugal average this season: 2.7 goals per match.
Liga Portugal table: the two clubs
| # | Club | P | W-D-L | Goals | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14. | Rio Ave | 8 | 2-1-5 | 8:17 | 7 |
| 3. | Sporting CP | 8 | 5-3-0 | 20:9 | 18 |
Recent form
Last five settled matches before this fixture, newest first.
Rio Ave
- AEstoril0–2W
- HFC Porto0–2L
- AGil Vicente1–0L
- HAl Ahli2–2D
Sporting CP
- HAlverca3–1W
- HVitoria de Guimaraes3–2W
- AEstrela da Amadora2–2D
- HNottingham Forest4–1W
- HMonaco2–0W
Head-to-head
Meetings before this fixture, from the results archive (July 2026 onwards).
No previous meeting between these clubs in our results archive, which starts in July 2026.