Last Saturday, Sporting provisionally took over the isolated leadership of the regular phase of the national futsal competition, beating Benfica 4-1 in Luz in a fourth round match, with goals from Taynan, who scored twice, Pauleta and Alex Merlin. .
The result leaves Sporting with 10 points, one more than Leões de Porto Salvo, second, and three more than Sporting de Braga and Torreense, third, who face each other on Sunday. Benfica remains in sixth place, which it shares with Fundão, with six points.
With a deafening atmosphere, Sporting started the match by putting more pressure on Benfica, but it was Chishkala who had the first chance to score after just two minutes, and goalkeeper Henrique Rafagnin’s reflexes were worth it to avoid greater damage to the prevent ‘lions’. ‘. .
The lion’s hunger continued, trying to play on the mistake of the “incarnates.” Pany Varela’s shot against the crossbar in the eighth minute put Benfica on target, but in the ninth minute Taynan, in the heart of the area, following Alex Merlin’s corner, did not forgive and opened the scoring.
With the game becoming increasingly disrupted, Benfica even had two clear chances to score, both from Edmilson Kutchy, in the 14th and 18th minutes, but Rafagnin, ever observant, did not allow this, allowing the three-time national champions to win before half-time .
It was precisely in this duel of strength that Benfica would fumble again and open the second half, after Zicky Tê had made a cross shot on the right, where Lúcio Rocha poorly cut the ball, which was left for Pauleta, who was standing on the edge of the area and made it 2-0 after 25 minutes.
Sporty, always more focused, almost never made mistakes, not even when passing, unlike the ‘reds’, and played while the clock was ticking.
He lowered the lines a little and when he went up, he left Mário Silva’s men in ‘papers’. An example of this was Sporting’s third goal, when the ball passed from foot to foot in the Benfica area until Taynan made it 3-0 in the 34th minute.
The ‘red’ goal of honor came in the 38th minute, via João Matos, who shot the ball into his own goal.
At a time when Benfica insisted on ‘five against four’, Alex Merlin took advantage of a loss of possession and sealed the final result with a shot from distance in the 40th minute.
Source: DN
