Ex-refs say Porto were favoured, but Pedro Marques Lopes taunted Sporting | OneFootball

Porto drew 2-2 with Famalicão in a match marked by plenty of controversy. Pedro Marques Lopes said he has no doubt that the blue-and-white side will be champions and did not miss the chance to provoke Sporting.

“We’re going to win the league and our old ‘against everything and everyone’ talk will come back to the surface. It was a balanced game, but we always play against the opponent and against outside forces, as happened in the match at Alvalade...”, he told Record newspaper.

Despite the jabs from the Porto supporter, the refereeing experts did not point to any serious mistakes in the Sporting - Santa Clara match. Jorge Faustino and Marco Ferreira stressed that “there were no major errors that compromised the final result” and that the work of the refereeing team was, in general, competent.

Curiously, the former referees harshly criticized Sérgio Guelho’s team’s management in Porto’s match. Jorge Faustino pointed to a decisive error in the incident that could have influenced the result: “In an intense, balanced and very demanding match, he made an important error (a penalty not awarded, with the corresponding sending-off also not given) that negatively marks his performance”.

“A penalty should have been awarded and, without the proper intervention from VAR, it negatively marks the work of the refereeing team”.

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