Three big ones make their debut in the Portuguese Cup with teams from Liga 3 – Coimbra News
FC Porto, Benfica and Sporting will debut in this edition of the Portuguese Football Cup against opponents from Liga 3, a tie that will already have a third team with the participation of all the first divisions.
In titles of the ‘classic’ FC Porto-Benfica, the fight for the national will have a break this weekend, for the matches of the ‘queen’ competition, whose third round will start with Olhanense-BSAD, on Friday, and will close with the displacement of the ‘dragons’ to the district of Aveiro, on Sunday.
If ‘blue and, that in May erect the trophy, after beating Tondela if, if they win, Tondela if, 3 of the League in competition, the eliminatory project of the Series A of the League 3, will come to a challenge that this militant, the current whites will reach a present that this militant, the whites will reach a present in the same series of the third tier, the Fafe (2-1).
FC Porto, which has 18 Portuguese Cups, and Anadia only once officially crossed paths, 50 years ago, when the Porto players broke away from the Anadienses in the Round of 16 of the Cup, after beating 8-0, in the 1971 season. /72 .
However, the first of the ‘big ones’ to enter the ‘scene’ will be Benfica, who on Saturday will go to Caldas da Rainha to face the vice-leader of Serie B of Liga 3, Caldas, who in the previous round surprised Sporting da Covilhã. , from the II Liga 3-0, seized by coach Leonel Pontes in the mountains.
The ‘incarnates’, trophy record holders (26), have not won the competition since 2017, having lost the 2020 and 2021 finals, while last season they were removed by FC Porto in the round of 16. Caldas’ best performance was their presence in the semi-finals in 2017/18, then eliminated by Desportivo de Aves, who would win the trophy.
Sporting (17 trophies) enter the field on Sunday and will repeat the confrontation of the fourth round of last season, against Varzim, but this time traveling to Póvoa, to play with the ‘runner-up’ of Série A of the third tier and still undefeated this season.
Poveiros have already played head-to-head for two rounds, overtaking Vila Me, now having the Cup for the last time in 2019 and which has not played in Póvoa do Varzim since 2003, when the Varzinistas in the I Liga.
Sporting de Braga plays at Felgueiras, while Vitória de Guimarães goes to Vila Nova de Gaia to play Canelas 2010 and Rio Ave visits Oliveira do Hospital, with four more matches between Liga 3 and I Liga: Amora-Estoril Praia, Vitória de Setúbal-Paços de Ferreira, Fontinhas-Arouca and Vilaverdense-Portimonense.
Another former, the same level of the competition, Boavista or Visita o Machico, from the fourth tier the level where the other Valadares Gaia plays, the Desportivo de Chaves train, Serpa, which receives Gil Vicente.
From the II League, Tondela, last season’s finalist, receives the first division, and Mafra, semifinalist for Tondela in 201/22, while Trofense will be Marítimo’s time, while Trofense measures strength with Famalicão and Penafiel with Vizela.
The three district resisters play with top-level accessories: Courense receives Camacha (L3), Oriental visits Académico de Viseu, from the II League, Sporting de Pombal plays in Pero Pinheiro (CP).