Porto closed out the season today with a double after beating Tondela in the final (3-1) and winning the 18th Portuguese Cup in its history. A title that would come two weeks after also winning the First League, so the ‘dragons’ closed the course with a double, the ninth since it was founded in 1893.
Iranian Mehdi Taremi, who scored two goals even though he also did not receive a penalty, was the architect of Porto’s success in the final played at the Nacional do Jamor stadium, in Oeiras (outside Lisbon), against a Tondela’s team relegated to the Second Portuguese Division after finishing the league championship in penultimate place.
Taremi, the architect of success
Taremi opened the scoring in the 22nd minute by converting a penalty. In the second half, Vitinha made it 2-0 (52 ‘). Taremi was able to sentence but took a penalty on the spot (66 ‘) and the final was complicated for Porto when Neto Borges made it 2-1 (73’).
But Taremi’s response was immediate when he corrected his penalty mistake with his second goal of the afternoon (75 ‘).
In this way, Sergio Conceiçao proved his second double (the first was in 2020) since he took office in Porto in June 2017.
Pepe, 25 titles
Meanwhile, at 39 years old, captain Pepe won his 25th title in his career as a footballer: 3 Cups, 4 leagues, 2 Super Cups and an Intercontinental Cup with Porto, 3 leagues, 2 Cups, 2 Spanish Super Cups, 3 Champions, a European Super Cup and 2 Club World Cups with Real Madrid and a European Championship and a Nations League with Portugal.
Source: La Verdad
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