FC Porto beat Benfica at home, tighten grip on Primeira Liga lead | OneFootball

FC Porto beat Benfica 3-1 this Sunday in the classic clash of the seventh round of the Primeira Liga, opening up a five-point lead over the Lisbon side, who suffered their first defeat since 25 January 2025.

Gabri Veiga opened the scoring in the 31st minute, before Froholdt, in the 54th, and Inbeom, in the 60th, extended the national champions’ lead. Benfica, reduced to 10 men in the 35th minute after Lenglet was sent off for a second yellow card, still managed to level through Bah in the 51st minute.

With this win, FC Porto remain 100 percent victorious in the league, recording their seventh consecutive victory and moving to 21 points. Benfica stay in second place, five points behind, after a run of 55 matches without defeat that began after a 3-1 loss away to Casa Pia in the 2024/25 season.

The defeat also left Benfica one match short of equalling the record achieved between the sixth round of the 1976/77 league campaign, with a 2-1 win over Boavista on 24 October 1976, and the opening round of the 1978/79 edition, when they beat Barreirense 1-0 on 28 August 1978.

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