This Friday, Sporting will try to consolidate its leadership in the Portuguese football league by hosting Estoril Praia at the start of matchday 16, shortly before chasing FC Porto faces Boavista in the Porto derby.
The Lisbon team will face the ‘canarinhos’ at 6:45 p.m., seeking to put pressure on their rival in the fight for the title, which will play in a foreign fiefdom, Benfica, second classified, with one point less, in Arouca. on Saturday, and FC Porto, third, three points away, in Bessa, also this Friday, at 8:45 p.m.
Sporting, the only 100% victorious team in their stadium, with eight wins in eight games, faces a rival that, despite occupying a comfortable ninth place, lost six of the eight games played as a visitor, but the only one they won was imposes. The ‘lions’ must be careful, as happened at the Estádio do Dragão, 1-0, just two months ago.
FC Porto, who suffered a hard blow two days ago when they lost 2-0 against Sporting, in Alvalade, travel to the Estádio do Bessa, to face a Boavista team that occupies 13th place and has not won. There are 10 games in the championship, seven of which ended in defeat.
Benfica, champions, who only lost in the first round, will face a team from Arouca in top form on Saturday, with three wins and a draw in the last four rounds, which have taken them to 10th place, a little before Sporting de Braga and Vitória de Guimarães, fourth and fifth placed, respectively, face each other in the Minho ‘clásico’.
Source: TSF
