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

A boiling dragon and a comfortable lion meet again for the third round of the Placard Championship 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 the tie,” said Xavi Malián in the build-up to tonight’s game (9pm, 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 small details, but together we’ll fight to get the win,” added the Porto goalkeeper.

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

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