2023-12-31 01:23:19
Sporting de Portugal beat Portimonense 1-2 this Saturday, with goals from Viktor Gyökeres and Paulinho in the second half, thereby regaining sole leadership of the Primeira Liga.
The Lisbon club traveled to the coastal city of Portimão, in the Algarve region, with the obligation to win if they wanted to stay at the top of the table, given that Benfica surpassed them in the table on Friday with their 3-0 win. Famalicão.
First half without goals
Sporting didn’t have it easy. Portimonense, coached by a former ‘lions’ coach, Paulo Sergio, He showed up for this fifteenth day with his lesson well learned and applied strong marking to the Lisbon team’s steamroller, the Swede Viktor Gyökeres, which reduced Sporting’s offensive options in the first half, despite the fact that they had a monopoly on the ball. .
The Verdiblancos continued in the second half with their insistence in search of the goal, which finally came in the 59th minute, the work of Gyökeres.
Root abre el marcador
The Nordic, who until then had participated little in the game, received in the area a wide pass by Pedro Gonçalves, He avoided his ‘shadows’ and deflected the ball into the back of the net.
Portimonense, who visited little the goal defended by the Spanish Antonio Adán, tied 10 minutes later through Filipe Relvas, who jumped higher than Gyökeres and headed in a cross from a free kick.
The Algarve team was about to score the second, but Eduardo Quaresma arrived just in time to block Hélio Varela’s shot that threatened Adan.
Great goal from Paulinho with a heel
Immediately afterwards, Sporting took the lead again with a masterful Diana de Paulinho.
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The Portuguese attacker, who was the most dangerous of the ‘lions’, received a low pass from the Japanese Morita and He scored with a backheel to make it 1-2.
There was still time for a new duel between Hélio Varela and Adan, who beat the Cape Verdean international and endured the result that leaves Sporting in first position in Portugal.
Braga, fourth, does not fail
Also this Saturday, Sporting de Braga beat Casa Pia 1-3 in a match marked by the ‘redemption’ of the Uruguayan Rodrigo Zalazar, who turned the page on his mistake in the previous day’s defeat against Benfica (0-1) with a goal and an assist.
Braga opened the scoring at the beginning of the second half through João Moutinhobut Casa Pia tied with a penalty converted by Clayton in the 74th minute.
Zalazar double
Zalazar, who started as a substitute, broke the tie a few minutes later with a pass for the Congolese Simon Banza to make it 1-2 and, in the 88th minute, sentenced the crash when scoring the third.
At the end of the fifteenth day, the Primeira Liga is led by Sporting, with 37 points, followed by Benfica, with 36, Porto, with 34 after their victory against Chaves (1-0), and Braga, with 32.
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