OR Benfica of Vangelis Pavlidis He was drawn to Sporting Lisbon (1-1), with the international Greek striker giving an assist and being one of the top home side.
With this result, Sporting Lisbon took a step closer to maintaining its title, as the “lions” remain in the 1st place, having the “upper hand” in the tie against Benfica. Rui Borges’ team will celebrate the championship if he wins Vitoria Guimaraes at home next week, while Vangelis Pavlidis and his teammates face Braga.
The visitors surprised and opened the scoring only in the 4th minute, when Gioceres pulled all the defense on him and set up in Trinka, who shot Trubin with a nice shot. Benfica had no choice but to go ahead and push, but she had difficulty breaking the defense of the “lions”.
It took a terrible individual effort by Vangelis Pavlidis, who in 63΄ passed three players and returned to the small area for Akourkoglou, who was in a promotion. The Greek striker touched the goal in the 76΄, but his effort stopped on the beam, and – more than – was replaced in 91΄ by Campral, at a time when his team was desperately looking for the winning goal …