On August 9, more than a week after the meeting, Sporting presented a disciplinary participation against Bruno Lage on the FPF Disciplinary Council, pointing to alleged offenses from the coach addressed to referee Fábio Veríssimo in the final moments of the Super Cup.
In a statement, the FPF CD states that this decision has “as its object the determination of any disciplinary relevance of facts not described in the official reports of the referee, the delegate or the police forces” present in the on July 31, that the ‘incarnates’ won 1-0 with a goal of Pavlidis at the Algarve stadium.
“The establishment was followed by disciplinary participation presented, on August 9, 2025, by Sporting Clube de Portugal – Football SAD. The process was sent, August 14, 2025, to the FPF Disciplinary Instruction Commission, and advertising was excluded until the end of the instruction,” said the CD.
On August 9, more than a week after the meeting, Sporting presented a disciplinary participation against Bruno Lage on the CD of the FPF, pointing to alleged offenses from the coach addressed to referee Fábio Veríssimo in the final moments of the Super Cup during the expulsion of goalkeeper coach, Nuno Santos.
Benfica speaks in complaint “ridiculous”
The Luz club dubbed “ridiculous” the complaint filed by the ‘lions’, lamenting the “generous dose of imagination and bad faith” of rival Lisboeta, which accused of having “a petty attitude” before “a lot of times heard in other transmissions and other fields.”
“It is, at the very least, ridiculous that it was necessary a week to invent a pretext and try, in a small way, to turn the defeat into the Super Cup into a pseudo-vitória de secretariat,” the ‘eagles’ reacted at the time.
Still this Friday, the incarnate coach reiterated that he devalues the action of the ‘lions’, denying the accusation:
“I am not worried and I can guarantee, very clearly, that what is in the complaint is false. And I am sure that the referee himself, Fábio Veríssimo, when confronted with it, will say the same as me.”
