Benfica issued a statement this Friday announcing that it had filed a complaint with the Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Football Federation against the president of FC Porto, Pinto da Costa, for “conditioning the arbitrations”.
Sport Lisboa e Benfica informs that it has participated in the Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Football Federation in relation to the statements made public by the president of FC Porto on Wednesday, April 19. Statements that seek to condition the referees in this final of the championship and that, having not received any action from the Disciplinary Council in the last 48 hours, justifies this procedure by Sport Lisboa e Benfica”, can be read in the note of the Benfica.
The Disciplinary Council of the Portuguese Football Federation announced on Thursday that it initiated a disciplinary process against SAD dos dragones, the administrator Vítor Baía and the coach Sérgio Conceição, after the participations presented by the FPF Arbitration Council and by Benfica , leaders of the First League with six rounds to go.
Last Friday, during the preview of FC Porto’s reception to Santa Clara, on matchday 28 of the championship, which the dragons won 2-1, Sérgio Conceição had mentioned that “there cannot be two weights and two measures” by the arbitration. teams in matches involving the top two ranked teams in the competition.
Vítor Baía, former soccer player and current administrator of SAD and vice president of the blue and white, asked that same day that “the mistakes that influence the results should not be repeated.”
On Tuesday, before the trip to Milan, where Benfica was left out of the Champions League the following day, after drawing with Inter in the second leg of the quarterfinals (3-3), the president of the reds, Rui Costa , revealed that the club had submitted a report to the disciplinary body for alleged “pressure” from FC Porto on arbitration.
FC Porto, in second place, with 67 points, four behind Benfica, visits Paços de Ferreira, 17th, with 17, on Saturday, at 8:30 p.m., at Estádio Capital do Móvel, in a match for the 29th day of the championship, under the arbitration of Fábio Veríssimo, from the Leiria association.
Source: TSF
