One for the diary! Benfica to play derby in pre-season | OneFootball

It’s the latest news: Benfica’s football team will play a friendly against Belenenses on 24 July, one day after their official season debut with a visit to Swiss side St. Gallen, the Club announced this Wednesday.

The match between the two Lisbon sides is scheduled for 18:00 at the Estádio da Luz, in Lisbon, in a game that should serve to give playing time to the footballers who will not be used in the first leg of the Europa League second qualifying round.

The following week, on 30 July, Benfica host St. Gallen in Lisbon in the match that will decide who progresses in the competition. According to reports in the national press, the Eagles will also play a friendly one day after that match.

The Reds, coached this season by Marco Silva, will still play one more friendly before the official start of the campaign, taking on Spain’s Villarreal this Friday, the 17th, in a match scheduled for the Estádio Algarve.

Last Saturday, the 11th, in the first open-door match of the season, Benfica were beaten 2-1 by Brazilian side Flamengo, managed by Leonardo Jardim, also in the Algarve, in a highly heated match.

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