Sporting 0–3 Borussia Dortmund — UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Match Stats

UEFA Champions League · 2024Tue, 11 Feb 2025, 20:00 UTC

Sporting

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0–3Historical match

Borussia Dortmund

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A completed match from a finished season. This page is the record of what happened.

Match at a glance

Borussia Dortmund won 0–3.

Shots: 1316
Shots on target: 67
Expected goals: 0.731.87
Possession: 46%54%

Full time

What the match recorded

Borussia Dortmund beat Sporting 3–0. Recorded in this match (Sporting – Borussia Dortmund): shots 13–16, shots on target 6–7, expected goals 0.73–1.87, possession 46%–54%. This is what was recorded. It is not a claim that the result was foreseeable.

Pre-match record

What the data showed before kick-off. Kept for reference; it did not know the result.

Sporting's recent record differs from the season

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Sporting's last-five goals scored average is below their season average.

0.8 goals/match ▲Goals forLast 5 · Season1.44 goals/match

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: An unweighted last-five average is compared with the unweighted season average.

Window: last_5 versus season

Metric	Last 5	Season	Baseline
Goals for	0.8 goals/match	1.44 goals/match	1.63 goals/match

Caveat: Five matches are sensitive to opponent mix and isolated match states.

This match

Match statistics

Shots13 shots16 shotsSporting 13 shots, Borussia Dortmund 16 shots
Shots on target6 shots7 shotsSporting 6 shots, Borussia Dortmund 7 shots
Expected goals0.73 xG1.87 xGSporting 0.73 xG, Borussia Dortmund 1.87 xG
Possession46%54%Sporting 46%, Borussia Dortmund 54%
Corners4 corners8 cornersSporting 4 corners, Borussia Dortmund 8 corners
Fouls8 fouls18 foulsSporting 8 fouls, Borussia Dortmund 18 fouls

Every shot

Shot map

Every recorded shot, placed where it was taken and sized by its expected-goals value. Arrows show each team’s attacking direction.

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on target
goal
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Sporting: 13 shots, 6 on target, 0.71 xG. Borussia Dortmund: 16 shots, 7 on target, 1.84 xG.

How the match built

Expected-goals timeline

Expected goals accumulated minute by minute. Circles mark the goals that were actually scored.

The step line is cumulative expected goals; circles mark goals. Final: Sporting 0.71 xG · Borussia Dortmund 1.84 xG.

History

Head-to-head

Recent meetings between these teams.

Last 5 meetings

1Sporting

0Draws

1Borussia Dortmund

24 Nov 2021Sporting — Borussia Dortmund · UEFA Champions League3–1

28 Sept 2021Borussia Dortmund — Sporting · UEFA Champions League1–0

Head-to-Head & Recent Meetings

Metric comparison

Team comparison

Season averages, with the sample size beside each metric.

Where the edge is

Season: Sporting favored in 0 of 11 directional metrics · Borussia Dortmund in 9 · 2 too close

led this metric higher value (descriptive) too close

Window

Season

Sporting9 matchesBorussia Dortmund9 matches

1.44 goals/matchGoals scored9/9▲ 2.78 goals/match

1.67 goals/matchGoals allowed9/9▲ 1.33 goals/match

1.42 xG/matchExpected goals9/9▲ 1.97 xG/match

13 shots/matchShots9/9▲ 13.9 shots/match

4.67 shots/matchShots on target9/9▲ 6.44 shots/match

49.2%Possession9/9● 54.6%

4.22 corners/matchCorners9/9● 6.11 corners/match

11 fouls/matchFouls9/911.8 fouls/match

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade B · Useful evidenceUseful evidence — limited

Season samples9 / 9home / away teams

Recent samples5 / 5last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

Evidence is usable but does not meet the strongest completeness threshold.

Known unknowns

Lineups, injuries, suspensions and tactical changes are not available in the retained dataset.
Some metrics are unavailable or below their observation minimum: cards.
The fixture season differs from the competition's configured active season.

Analysis cutoff: Wed, 12 Feb 2025, 00:00 UTC · analysis-v4