Sporting Lisbon survived the “heart attack” in the final and took the top again!

New Year’s at the top of Liga Portugal will be done by Sporting Lisbon!



Ruben Amorim’s team… needed it on Saturday night at home Portimonensehowever, in the finale he found a way to get away with it double (1-2) and to climb back to the top of the leaderboard after the first 15 matches.

Yokeres opened the scoring for the visitors in the 59th minute, and ten minutes later the home team responded with Relvas. Sporting then pushed for the winning goal, which they eventually found in the 80th minute with Paulinios.

Thus, the Lisbon team rose to first place with 37 points, leaving Benfica in 2nd place and -1 from the top.

The schedule for matchday 15 in the Primeira Liga:

Saturday (23/12)

Guimaraes – Rio Ave 1-0

(63′ Thiago Silva)

Vijella – Moreirense 0-0

Thursday (28/12)

Estrella Amadora – Aruka 1-4

(11′ Gaspar – 47′ Muchica, 77′ Salgueiro, 80′ Rubio, 90+1′ Buccia)

Friday (29/12)

Benfica – Famalikao 3-0

(31′ Cabral, 85′ Rafa Silva, 89′ Moussa)

Porto – Chaves 1-0

(58′ Joao Mario)

Saturday (12/30)

Gilles Vithente – Boavista 1-0

(64′ pen. Mourinho)

Estoril – Firenze 4-0

(5′, 47′ Marques, 45+5′ Araujo, 78′ Para)

Casa Pia-Braga 1-3

(74 pen. Clayton – 51′ Moutinho, 77′ Banza, 88′ Salazar)

Portimonense-Sporting Lisbon 1-2

(69′ Relvas – 59′ Yokeres, 80′ Paulinho)

The schedule for the next (16th) matchday:

Friday (05/01)

Sporting Lisbon – Estoril (20:45)

Boavista-Porto (22:45)

Saturday (06/01)

Estrella da Amadora – Vijela (17:30)

Firenze – Gilles Vitente (17:30)

Aruka – Benfica (20:00)

Braga – Guimaraes (22:30)

Sunday (07/01)

Rio Ave – Portimonense (20:00)

Famalikao – Chaves (22:30)

Monday (08/01)

Moreirense – Casa Pia (22:15)