Lone goal gives Benfica win over Sporting as Eagles pull clear | OneFootball

Double derby win. On the night of this Friday, May 1, Benfica’s reserve team faced Sporting in the match that opened the 32nd round of Liga Portugal Meu Super. At the end of the 90 minutes, the Eagles beat the Lions 1-0, thanks to a goal scored by Diogo Prioste. With that, the Reds secured their place in the competition.

Arnas Voitinovicius, Daniel Banjaqui, Rui Silva, Gonçalo Oliveira, José Neto, Nuno Félix, Diogo Prioste, Gonçalo Moreira, João Rego, Olívio Tomé and Anísio Cabral were the players in Nélson Veríssimo’s starting XI, as he looked to claim another win against the Lions. Ricardo Ribeiro, Tiago Parente, Martim Ferreira, Tomás Cruz, Miguel Figueiredo, Tiago Freitas, Francisco Neto, Peter Edokpolor and Jelani Trevisan were on the bench.

Playing at Estádio Aurélio Pereira, at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy, the reserve sides of Lisbon’s eternal rivals left everything on the pitch. In the first half, both Benfica and Sporting had a few chances to open the scoring, but the ball did not find the back of the net, meaning the deadlock remained at half-time.

In the second half, the team in red came out determined to make the difference and grew into the match until João Rego won a penalty, which Diogo Prioste missed, but he made it 1-0 on the rebound (63'). Until the final whistle, both reserve sides still created more chances, but the score remained unchanged until the referee’s last blow of the whistle.

With this win, the red-and-white side returned to winning ways in the league after a less successful run in the previous rounds. After 32 rounds of Liga Portugal Meu Super, Benfica move clear of Sporting and climb to sixth place in the standings, with 44 points collected.

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