Analysis
Benfica and Sporting play on Sunday, VYou will find yourself in the Portuguese Cup final, which has not happened for 29 years. Luís Cristóvão prevails the fourth and last derby of the time.
. At Sporting, Diomande came out with complaints from the game with Vitória and is in doubt. No Amdouni and Aursnes try to recover in time from Jamor. It is always difficult to define favorites. But there is clearly a team that will enter this more confident game, so the game can be harder for Benfica? Luís Cristóvão answers this and other questions in the preview of the derby.
“The fact that you have not won the title and feel this pressure here to get to victory. On the other hand, it is a Benfica who will have been much more focused on preparing the game this week,” says the SIC Commentator.
“O Naturally, there were many moments of celebration, many moments of distraction, a lot of contact. With the media and entertainment programs, with many interviews from the various protagonists of the title and so it is a Sporting that is more confident will also come to this game with less focus, “he adds.
Luís Cristóvão recalls that when there are these finals of the Portuguese Cup between first and second place in the championship, There is a certain tradition of the teams that are in second place arrive more motivated and eventually get better results.
“But it is still a 50-50 game, as Sporting, at this end of the season, eventually confirmed its best moment and take the title.”
“It is, above all, a game that also has a huge emotional load. Because it is played in Jamor, because it is a cup final, with everything that came from this competitiveness between the two teams, and there is important that players are focused to face the moment,” underlines the commentator of SIC.
. Benfica, a triumph record holder in the competition, with 26 trophies won, fulfills his 39th presence in the decisive game, the eighth against Sporting, who plays in the final for the 31st time, in search of his 17th title.
The eighth final between Benfica and Sporting, the first since the tragic clash marked by the death of a Sportinguista hit by a ‘Very Light’ fired by a ‘incarnate’ fan in 1995/96, is .
