Date: Sunday November 26 Time: 6:00 p.m. Local Time | 1:00 p.m. ET | 10:00 a.m. PT Location: Estádio da Capital do Móvel, Paços de Ferreira Television: Sport TV 1 Acestream: ArenaVision 17 Web Stream: TBD
I got a good vibe about this one. Coming off a confident win in Champions League. Looks like we’ve come over this injury catastrophe for the most part and Paços is bad. 21 goals against makes for one of the worst defences in the league. All those factored in together and I’m predicting a route, 4-0. I’ll be seriously disspointed if we drop points here. Like give up on the season disappointed lol
We have to win we have weathered the crisis , our tough champions league has disgractee us this season. This is the game of the season imo. If we win we will only be two points behind Porto who have overperformed to this point; whereas sporting has been hit by injuries. Another important factor is bas dost has returned to form and has put his poor start behind him. I predict that if sporting wins this game tomorrow they will end up winning the liga. It won't be easy especially because pacos has always been a satellite club of porto. They will eat grass to take a point against us. The league needs to have a rule and limit the amount of northern teams. It's not fair and they are nearly all on PDCs payroll.
Aves had a few good chances early in the game too. They got lucky with the red card, but Porto actually looked beatable in this game and was surprised not to see the upset after Corona was sent off. As said, huge game tomorrow. Could cut the distance back to two points with Benfica and Porto going head to head the following week.
Rafael Leão and Bryan Ruiz will be on the bench along with Podence, Bruno Cesar, Ristovski, André Pinto and Salin
Can’t wait to hear Benfica’s claims of offside on our goal lol At first look I thought Dost was but it does look like he’s in line with the ball. But it’s so close that I’m sure Benfica will come out with claims of “Clear offsides!” Tapered off a bit at the end of the half there. Hope we come out strong
Need to get a second in a game like this to make up for our inevitable loss of concentration in the final 5 minutes