FC Arouca 3–3 Rio Ave — Primeira Liga 2025/26 Match Stats

Primeira Liga · 2025Sat, 23 Aug 2025, 19:30 UTCEstádio Municipal de Arouca

FC Arouca

WWL

3–3Historical match

Rio Ave

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

Match at a glance

FC Arouca and Rio Ave drew 3–3.

Shots: 1415
Shots on target: 67
Expected goals: 0.71.57
Possession: 55%45%

Full time

What the match recorded

Arouca and Rio Ave drew 3–3. Recorded in this match (Arouca – Rio Ave): shots 14–15, shots on target 6–7, expected goals 0.7–1.57, possession 55%–45%. 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.

Recent scheduling adds useful context

weak

A compressed recent schedule is recorded for Arouca.

6 days ▲Rest daysArouca · Rio Ave6.21 days

Evidence and caveat

Comparison: Rest days and completed matches in the prior 14 days are shown directly.

Window: previous 14 days

Metric	Arouca	Rio Ave	Baseline
Rest days	6 days	6.21 days	—
Matches last 14 days	3 matches	1 match	—

Caveat: The database does not describe travel, rotation decisions or player-level workload.

This match

Match statistics

Shots14 shots15 shotsFC Arouca 14 shots, Rio Ave 15 shots
Shots on target6 shots7 shotsFC Arouca 6 shots, Rio Ave 7 shots
Expected goals0.7 xG1.57 xGFC Arouca 0.7 xG, Rio Ave 1.57 xG
Possession55%45%FC Arouca 55%, Rio Ave 45%
Corners4 corners2 cornersFC Arouca 4 corners, Rio Ave 2 corners
Fouls13 fouls17 foulsFC Arouca 13 fouls, Rio Ave 17 fouls
Yellow cards3 cards2 cardsFC Arouca 3 cards, Rio Ave 2 cards

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.

off target
on target
goal
penalty
size = xG

Arouca: 14 shots, 6 on target, 0.63 xG. Rio Ave: 15 shots, 7 on target, 1.54 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: Arouca 0.63 xG · Rio Ave 1.54 xG.

History

Head-to-head

Recent meetings between these teams.

Last 5 meetings

0FC Arouca

3Draws

2Rio Ave

10 Feb 2025FC Arouca — Rio Ave · Primeira Liga1–1

1 Sept 2024Rio Ave — FC Arouca · Primeira Liga1–0

19 Apr 2024Rio Ave — FC Arouca · Primeira Liga1–1

10 Dec 2023FC Arouca — Rio Ave · Primeira Liga2–2

28 Apr 2023Rio Ave — FC Arouca · Primeira Liga1–0

Head-to-Head & Recent Meetings

Metric comparison

Team comparison

led this metric higher value (descriptive) too close

6 daysRest before fixtureprevious completed fixtures · 1/16.21 days

3 matchesMatches in previous 14 daysprevious completed fixtures · 1/11 match

Evidence quality

How much supports this analysis

Grade C · Limited evidenceLimited evidence — limited

Season samples4 / 2home / away teams

Recent samples4 / 2last-five windows

FreshnessLess than one dayfrom nearest prior match

At least one team has fewer than the configured season sample.
At least one team has an incomplete last-five window.
Recorded xG is incomplete, so xG context is omitted where unavailable.

Known unknowns

Lineups, injuries, suspensions and tactical changes are not available in the retained dataset.
Some metrics are unavailable or below their observation minimum: goals_for, goals_against, xg_for, xg_against, shots, shots_on_target, possession, corners, cards, fouls.
The completed-match sample is too small for broad style conclusions.
The fixture season differs from the competition's configured active season.

Analysis cutoff: Sat, 23 Aug 2025, 23:30 UTC · analysis-v4