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Sporting CP — Alverca: 3:1, Primeira Liga

Primeira Liga
Sporting CP W22 Aug · Home Alverca · 3:1W28 Aug · Away Rio Ave FC · 4:0W5 Sep · Home Nacional · 2:0W9 Sep · Home Galatasaray · 3:1D13 Sep · Away Famalicao · 1:1D19 Sep · Home Arouca · 2:2
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Alverca D15 Aug · Home Estrela da Amadora · 2:2L22 Aug · Away Sporting CP · 1:3D29 Aug · Home Santa Clara · 1:1L5 Sep · Home SC Braga · 1:2W12 Sep · Away Nacional · 3:1W19 Sep · Home Rio Ave FC · 1:0
Venue: Estádio José Alvalade City: Lisbon

In the Primeira Liga game on 22 August 2026, Sporting CP beat Alverca 3:1. Match numbers: shots on target 7:3, corners 3:4.

Match report

Sporting beat Alverca 3:1 at Estádio José Alvalade on Friday evening in the third match of the Primeira Liga regular season. The hosts took an early lead through M. Araujo in the second minute, then rode their luck with a second-half own goal before L. Suarez restored their advantage.

Araujo struck almost immediately, giving Sporting a foothold that never really wavered. Alverca responded with physicality — Yaya Bojang picked up a yellow card by the sixteenth minute, and Davy Gui followed suit before half-time.

And here's the thing about the own goal. Matheus Mendes bundled it home in the fifty-fifth minute, and Sporting pulled back to 2:0 after L. Suarez tapped in from close range four minutes later. The visitors had been told they were done for.

Then Alverca sensed blood. Figueiredo pulled one back in the eighty-eighth minute and added another ninety seconds later. By then the match had turned into something else entirely — not a comfortable win for Sporting, but certainly enough.

Sporting dominated possession at 59 per cent and registered an expected goals figure of 2.12 compared to Alverca's 0.41. They took seven shots on target with five off target, while the visitors managed three shots on target and five wide. The statistics tell the story of a team that created more and converted more.

Sporting move up to second place with ten points from four games — three wins and a draw. Alverca remain rooted to sixteenth with just two points from two draws and two defeats. The gap between them is beginning to look like more than just numbers on a table.

Prepared from match data

Key numbers

Possession, % 59 – 41
Shots on target 7 – 3
Shots off target 5 – 5
Expected goals 2.12 – 0.41

Match events

  1. 2' Sporting CP Goal M. Araujo
  2. 16' Alverca Yellow card Yaya Bojang
  3. 22' Sporting CP Yellow card Geny Catamo
  4. 39' Alverca Yellow card Davy Gui
  5. 55' Sporting CP Own goal Matheus Mendes
  6. 56' Alverca Substitution V. Semedo off: S. J. Merheg
  7. 56' Alverca Substitution Rayan Lucas off: A. Vidigal
  8. 60' Sporting CP Goal L. Suarez assist: G. Catamo
  9. 66' Alverca Substitution Chissumba off: M. Essimi
  10. 68' Sporting CP Substitution G. Catamo off: Luis Guilherme
  11. 68' Sporting CP Substitution F. Goncalves off: N. Irankunda
  12. 75' Alverca Yellow card M. Essimi
  13. 75' Alverca Substitution Ian Luccas off: V. Moreira
  14. 75' Alverca Substitution D. Gui off: Z. Kassary
  15. 75' Sporting CP Substitution Z. Debast off: E. Quaresma
  16. 75' Sporting CP Substitution L. Suarez off: R. Nel
  17. 88' Sporting CP Substitution R. Zalazar off: Pedro Lima
  18. 88' Alverca Goal Figueiredo assist: V. Moreira
  19. 89' Alverca Goal Figueiredo assist: V. Moreira

Statistics

59 Possession, % 41
7 Shots on target 3
5 Shots off target 5
2.12 Expected goals 0.41
3 Big chances 1
97 Attacks 106
3 Corners 4
13 Fouls 17
15 Free kicks 12
2 Offsides 0
1 Yellow cards 3
0 Red cards 0
8 Goal kicks 7
22 Throw-ins 27
All statistics
3/1127% Aerial duels 8/1173%
103 Backward passes 70
3 Blocked shots 2
15 Clearances 9
0/70% Crosses 2/1217%
7/1644% Dribbles 4/1233%
0.63 Expected assists 0.35
70 Failed passes 75
2 Goalkeeper saves 5
14 Interceptions 9
8 Key passes 9
36/5565% Long passes 18/4045%
84 Passes into the final third 65
252 Passes in the opposition half 215
366 Passes in own half 211
0.47 Shot accuracy 0.30
7 Shots from outside the box 4
8 Shots inside the box 6
15/2075% Tackles 9/1464%
611 Total passes 414

Line-ups

Sporting CP

Starting XI
# Player number
1 Rui Silva 1
6 Zeno Debast 6
20 Maximiliano Javier Araújo Vilches 20
22 Iván Fresneda Corraliza 22
55 I. Ba 55
5 Sergi Altimira Clavell 5
10 Geny Cipriano Catamo 10
17 Rodrigo Zalazar Martínez 17
58 F. Gonçalves 58
77 Issa Doumbia 77
97 Luis Javier Suárez Charris 97
Substitutes
# Player number
12 João Manuel Neves Virgínia 12
13 Georgios Vagiannidis 13
25 Gonçalo Bernardo Inácio 25
50 Rodrigo Dias 50
72 Eduardo Quaresma 72
4 Silas Andersen 4
21 Pedro Lima 21
73 Eduardo Felissíssimo 73
9 Rafael Nel 9
19 Nestory Irankunda 19
28 J. Derry 28
31 Luis Guilherme 31
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Alverca

Starting XI
# Player number
31 Matheus Mendes 31
2 Nabili Zoubdi Touaizi 2
4 J. Bodjang 4
12 Isaac James 12
14 Steven Baseya 14
6 Davi Guy 6
25 Ian Luccas Baroni Boetto 25
35 Ryan Lucas 35
9 V. Semedo 9
22 Figueiredo 22
55 Francisco Chissumba 55
Substitutes
# Player number
23 André Paulo 23
91 Jhonatan Luiz da Siqueira 91
15 Iker dos Santos 15
20 Diogo Spencer 20
21 Sergi Gómez Solà 21
8 Vasco Moreira 8
18 Zakaria Cassari 18
7 André Vidigal 7
11 Cedric Nuzzi 11
17 Samy Jr Merheg 17
19 Marco Rachid Essimi Ateba 19
27 Toni Tamarit 27
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