Sporting beat Portimonense yesterday (3-0), increasing their lead at the top of the Primeira Liga to eight points and will be champions this Sunday if Benfica, in second place, do not win their visit to Famalicao with two rounds remaining .
Paulinho (13′), the former Barcelona player Francisco Trincao (70′) and the ‘Pichichi’ Viktor Gyökeres (92′), with their 27th goal, they scored for Sporting and fueled the festive atmosphere that reigned at the Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon, which recorded its highest attendance of the season with 49,557 spectators.
The ‘lions’ couldn’t have achieved a bigger result thanks to countless saves by Portimonense’s goalkeeper, the Japanese Kosuke Nakamura, one of the best in grass.
Porto consolidates itself in third
Also this Saturday, Porto defeated Chaves 0-3 and remains firmly in third place, giving access to the Europa League.
Francisco Conceição, Evanilson and Mehdi Taremi scored for the blue and white under the watchful eye of its future president, former coach André Villas-Boas, and its sports director, the Spanish former goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarretais on the stands now.
The result complicates life for the penultimate Chaves, the Canarian attacker Hector Hernandez will soon join Vizela, a Galician-led group Ruben de la Barrerawhich yesterday Friday was relegated to the second division after losing to Moreirense (1-0).
Source: La Verdad
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