Benfica gave their fans the best possible Christmas present: the Portuguese league lead. They achieved this after defeating an Estoril side (3-0) that the ‘Eagles’ were never able to beat.Who find themselves top of the table for the first time in the season, with 15 league games already played.
Because, a little more than a month ago, the panorama was very different. Sporting, then Amorim’s coach, led with an iron fist. Porto was the only one that followed him and Benfica team is third in the table with seven pointsAnd he has already replaced his coach Roger Schmidt with Bruno Leigh.
But from then until the end of the year, Sporting Post Amorim was depressed (the Lisbon derby is played on Sunday 29th) and Porto was unable to find its best moment, which was taken advantage of by a rising Benfica. This Monday, with the Spanish Carreras combining on the left, he scored a crucial victory which Pavlidis di Maria opened with a pass.
Finally came the extended sentence. Amdouni, the secret piece that makes Benfica such good results from the benchRe-entered the final stretch to secure the win, a win and a lead that seemed so far away a month ago.
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Andre Laximicant (68′, Alejandro Marquez), Leandro Barreiro (70′, Vangelis Pavlidis), Jackie Amdouni (70′, Frédéric Arnes), Yannis Begraoui (77′, Kevin Bomer), Gonzalo Costa (77′, Fabricio Garcia), Benjamin Rolheiser (83′, Kerem Akturkoglu), Issa Kabore (91′, Alexander Bah), Andreas Sjeldarup (91′, Angel Di Maria)
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1-0, 27′: Vangelis Pavlidis2-0, 72′: Mohammad Zeki Amdouni3-0, 93′: Mohammad Zeki Amdouni
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Referee: Antonio Nobre
VAR Referees: Bruno Esteves, Ruben Joao Rodriguez da Silva
Kevin Fear (33′, yellow), Orkun Kokku (66′, Yellow)
