Upheaval and four for Benfica

He continues to threaten as much as Benfica can to find himself at the top of the Primeira Liga. The “eagles” comfortably defeated Santa Clara 4-1 in the second half in “Da Luz” for the fifth matchday of the Portuguese league, reduced to -5 from the leader Sporting Lisbon and hope to “steal” the title from ” lions”, waiting for the result of Porto, which welcomes Firenze to “Dragão” on Sunday.

For their part, the visitors stayed -6 off the top spot, but are still in contention for the European spots.

And indeed, they took the lead through Vinicius in just the first minute, but Acturkoglou in the 27th minute and Fiorentino in the 34th minute made it 2-1 in the first half before goals from Antonio Silva in the 47th minute and Di Maria in the 58th minute set up the final. result.

Famalicao “stuck” and, with the 1-1 conceded by Gilles Vicente, lost the chance to remain -3 from the top, now being -5 from Sporting and giving the visitors the chance to escape from the last places .

In the first half of the table was newly promoted Villafracense, who defeated Rio Ave 1-0 at home and passed them in the standings.

Casa Pia left Moreirense a little further away from the first positions, beating them 3-1 at home and climbing to +4 from the dangerous positions.

The schedule for the fifth matchday:

Friday 13/9

Aruca-Sporting Lisbon 0-3

Saturday 14/9

Casa Pia-Moreirense 3-1

Villafrance-Rio Ave 1-0

Benfica-Santa Clara 4-1

Famalikao-Jil Vicente 1-1

Sunday 15/09

Porto-Florence (17:30)

Estoril-Nacional Madeira (20:00)

Braga-Guimaraes (22:30)

Monday 16/9

Estrella Amadora-Boavista (22:15)