Today, at the Estádio da Luz, Sporting seeks to take the lead in the 1st Football League against a Benfica forced to win and convince, in the most historic derby in Portuguese football, on the 12th matchday of the 1 ª League
If they win, the ‘lions’, who are the only ones who have not yet lost in the competition, will take control of the championship and will now have a six-point advantage over Benfica, second placed, and also over FC Porto. , who traveled to Guimarães on Saturday to beat Vitória 2-1.
Benfica, on the other hand, needs a win, and also a good performance, to relaunch the season, already quite irregular in terms of performance and also in the Champions League, in which it has zero points in four rounds, after having been removed.
Benfica’s eleven: Trubin, António Silva, Otamendi, Morato, João Neves, João Mário, Florentino, Aursnes, Di María, Rafa and Musa.
Sporting’s eleven: Adán, Diomande, Coates, Inácio, Esgaio, Hjulmand, Morita, Matheus Reis, Pedro Gonçalves, Edwards and Gyökeres.
Benfica substitutes: Samuel Soares, Arthur Cabral, Jurásek, Guedes, Tengstedt, Chiquinho. João Victor, Tomás Araújo and Tiago Gouveia.
Sports substitutes: Israel, St. Juste, Nuno Santos, Neto, Essugo, Trincão, Paulinho, Daniel Bragança and Afonso Moreira.
Source: TSF
