FC Porto look to bounce back against Sporting and stay alive in title race | OneFootball

A boiling dragon and a comfortable lion meet again for the third round of the Campeonato Placard semi-finals, after FC Porto lost the first match at home 3-7 and the second, away to Sporting, 2-0.

“We’re going to do everything we can to win and earn an extra life in this tie,” said Xavi Malián in the build-up to tonight’s game (9:00pm, Porto Canal). “We know that if we lose, we’re out. It’s a final, but we’ll approach it like the last two games. It will be extremely difficult and decided by the details, but together we’re going to fight to get the win,” added the Porto goalkeeper.

On Sporting’s side, it was also a goalkeeper who spoke, with Xano Edo arguing that the “team has to maintain the same winning momentum”, aware that “it’s going to be a more complicated game than the first two”. “If it’s hard to win at the Dragão Arena, doing it twice in a row is even harder,” recalled the international.

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