Sporting de Portugal beat Portimonense 1-2 on Saturday, with goals from Viktor Gyökeres and Paulinho in the second half, thereby regaining sole leadership of the Primeira Liga.
The Lisbon club travel to the coastal city of Portimão, in the Algarve region, with an obligation to win if they want to stay at the top of the table, as Benfica leapfrogged them in the table on Friday with their 3-0 win. Famalicão.
First half no goals
Sporting has never been easy. Portimonense, coached by the former ‘lions’ coach, Paulo Sergio, He appeared for this fifteenth day having learned his lesson well and applied a strong mark to the steamroller of the Lisbon team, Swede Viktor Gyökeres, who reduced Sporting’s offensive options in the first half, in despite the fact that they have a monopoly on the ball. .
The Verdiblancos continued in the second half with their search persistence of the goal, which finally came in the 59th minute, the work of Gyökeres.
Gyökeres opened the scoring
The Nordic, which until then had only partially participated in the game, received the place a long pass from Pedro Gonçalves, He avoided his ‘shadow’ and deflected the ball into the back of the net.
Portimonense, who visited a little the goal defended by the Spaniard Antonio Adán, tied 10 minutes later Filipe Relvas, who jumped higher than Gyökeres and headed in a cross from a free kick.
The Algarve team came close to scoring a second, but Eduardo Quaresma arrived just in time to block Hélio Varela’s shot that threatened Adam.
Great goal from Paulinho with a heel
Immediately after, Sporting took the lead again in a Great target by Paulinho.
The Portuguese attacker, the most dangerous of the ‘lions’, received a low pass from the Japanese Morita and He scores with a backheel to make it 1-2.
There is still time for a new rivalry between Hélio Varela and Adam, who defeated the Cape Verdean international and endured a result that left Sporting in first position in Portugal.
Braga, fourth, did not disappoint
This Saturday too, Sporting de Braga beat Casa Pia 1-3 in a match marked by Uruguayan ‘redemption’ Rodrigo Zalazar, who turned the page on his mistake in the previous day’s defeat against Benfica (0-1) with one goal and one assist.
Braga opened the scoring at the beginning of the second half João Moutinhobut Casa Pia equalized with a penalty converted by Clayton in the 74th minute.
Zalazar doubled
Zalazar, who started as a substitute, broke the tie minutes later with a pass for Congolese Simon Banza to make it 1-2 and, in the 88th minute, sentenced to crash when scoring a 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 over Chaves (1-0), and Braga, with 32.
Source: La Verdad
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