Portuguese Cup: FC Porto welcomes Sporting with everything in their favor and aims for Jamor
FC Porto welcomes Sporting on Thursday with everything in its favor to stamp a place in the final of the 82nd edition of the Portuguese Cup in football, in which Tondela already has ‘foot and a half’.
The ‘Dragons’ start the second leg of the semi-final already ahead, after a 2-1 victory in Alvalade, in a competition in which away goals still tie, and very moralized for being a small step away from their 30th national Championship.
Sérgio Conceição’s team can already ‘see’ the ninth ‘double’ on the horizon, two years later, and the first step is to hold the tangential, but significantly, with an advantage conquered in the first leg of the semi-finals.
On March 2, Sporting even started at the best, getting ahead of the Spaniard Pablo Sara, 49 minutes, but, in a flash, the ‘dragons’ turned the best, with a penalty by the Iranian Taremi, at 59, and a goal of the Brazilian Evanilson, at 64.
If the draw was already an advantage – because the scorers go to the competition in this competition, contrary to what they already conquer in the cups, the 2-1 triumph for FC Porto in a very comfortable situation, knowing that they can lose 1-0 .
‘already’ the celebrations of the championship are being prepared, with the ‘dragons’ nine points ahead of the even Sporting heights with scarce 12 to play ‘eleven’ of disputergio Conceição arrives, thus, at the meeting clear on top, Numa because, at home, only lost this season to European countries.
Liverpool (1-5) and Atlético de Madrid (1-3), in the Champions League, and Lyon (0-1), in the Europa League, were the only teams to win in 2021/22 at Estádio do Dragão, where a Portuguese formation has not triumphed since March 3, 2021.
On that day, FC Porto also took the lead (1-1 in the ‘quarry’), also in a second leg match for the semi-finals, but lost at home to Sporting de Braga by 3-2, who now serve Sporting.
A year later, the ‘far better, with a record of losing in the championship, while the ‘seeing the Dragon after the huge disappointment on Sunday, are much better, with a record of losing in the championship, while the games go without distinction by 2 -0 with rivals Benfica, in the Alvalade derby.
Sporting let slip, in that match, all the possibilities of fighting for the revalidation of the national team, which they last managed to do in 1953/54, almost 70 years ago, and, four days later, they could say ‘goodbye’ to the Portuguese Cup .
Formation de Réus still has, a word to love, at a time when, however, to conquer the distance of FC Porto, could end up with three ‘secondary’ trophies of Portuguese football, would only fail, as everything indicates, the Eu Liga.
In, Sporting started by snatching the Supertaça Cândido season, with a 2-1 victory over Sporting de Braga, on July 21, 2021, in Aveiro, and then, on January 29, 3rd Liga, beating Benfica in the final also by 2-1, in Leiria.
In this way, the ‘lions’, mathematically, all the trophies, being, if the championship is a ‘mirage’, the Portuguese Cup is much more possible, although it necessarily passes by scoring a minimum of two goals in Dragão.
This feat, however, would not be unprecedented for Sporting this season, as they achieved it in the championship game, played on February 11. Paulinho, in the eighth minute, and Nuno Santos, in the 34th minute, put the ‘lions’ to a 2-0 lead, with Fábio Vieira reducing, in the 38th minute, and everything got complicated in the 49th, with the expulsion of Coates, who I had missed the first yellow.
Then, with 10, the ‘lions’ couldn’t stand it, they couldn’t stand it all, they weren’t 70 years old, they didn’t even have an advantage, ‘to the ‘air’ what they had, a few minutes, maybe, if they could blame themselves, they hadn’t been. different in the championship.
On Thursday, FC Porto starts, however, with an advantage and knows that they can concede a goal, with Tondela being even better, who, the day before, play in Mafra after beating the survivor of the II Liga at home. by 3-0.
Tiago Dantas, in the 38th minute, the Spaniard Manu Hernando, in the 66th minute, and the Brazilian Neto Borges, in the 75th minute, scored the goals of the then-managed Spaniard Pako Ayestáran, meanwhile replaced by Nuno Campos, who is going to seal or clearance of a team that follows in the 17th position of the I Liga.
Tondela can play in the Portuguese Cup final – on May 22, at Jamor – already relegated to the II League, which would not be unprecedented in the history of Portuguese football -, having the story of return, curiously, to the current coach of Mafra.
In 1998/99, Ricardo Sousa, son of António and father of Afonso, scored the goal that gave the unprecedented ‘caneco’ to Beira-Mar, against Campomaiorense (1-0), at a time when Aveiro reached the 16th. th place in the I League and were relegated.
Not to the third, which seems easy, the easiest place teams in the I Liga, but it seems that it seems to continue in the giants’ height of the I Liga, but it seems that it looks giant in the second League. .