This Sunday is the day of the big match in Luz, between Benfica and Sporting, starting at 6:00 p.m. It is a derby in which Benfica “must win” and of little value for Sporting in the fight for the title. This is how Manuel José, ex-eagles and lions coach, launches, in TSF, the Lisbon derby. The coach leaves Sporting out of the fight for the title and Benfica with an excellent opportunity to consolidate the lead.
Sporting will have to review the defensive structure for this afternoon’s derby against Benfica. This is the opinion of Eurico Gomes, former player of the eagles and lions and the only Portuguese player who was national champion of the three greats of Portuguese football. Eurico Gomes foresees, in the TSFthe derby between Benfica and Sporting.
Benfica receives Sporting this Sunday, in a Lisbon derby that is the great match of the 16th round of the Portuguese Football League, seeking to remain in the lead after the victory of Sporting de Braga.
After Minho’s triumph in the reception against Boavista (1-0), Artur Jorge’s men are second, with 37 points, three behind the leader, putting pressure on the ‘eagles’, who enter the field against FC Porto, third with 33, host Famalicão (20:30).
After qualifying for the Portuguese Cup in Varzim (2-0), the ‘incarnated’ are in top form against their rivals, with the world champion from Argentina Enzo Fernández reinstated and galvanized by the goal scored in Póvoa.
Even without the reinforcements Schjelderup and Tengstedt, Roger Schmidt will want to beat the ‘lions’ and deepen the crisis outside Alvalade of the outsiders, who in 2021/22 beat Luz 3-1.
For the team led by Rúben Amorim, only victory allows them to maintain tenuous expectations of reaching the title, with the lead already at 12 points, although the ‘greens and whites’ must do so, especially after the defeat in Madeira against Marítimo (1 -0), they focus attention on the rest of the access places to the Champions League next season.
Source: TSF
