This Monday, Sporting will be aiming for an eighth consecutive victory in the Portuguese First Football League in Moreira de Conegos over Moreirense and overtake rivals Benfica at the top.
With two points less, Sporting, who have 52 points, three less than rivals Benfica, will face a very safe opponent in sixth place and a very difficult obstacle to the recent winning run of Alvalade’s side, who are in Thursday won 3-1. to Young Boys for the Europa League.
The Leonin team have won their last seven league matches, equaling the best run twice set by Benfica, a record that could have already been broken if the match with Famalican on the 20th round had not been postponed due to reason security.
Sporting can surpass this record against Moreirense by counting on a player in the “state of grace”, Swedish striker Victor Gyökeres, the top scorer of the I League with 16 goals and four times in a row voted player of the month.
Dieuqueres scored one of the winning goals in the 3-0 first round win, but this time the fight will take place away from the José Alvalade stadium, where the team coached by Ruben Amorim have won all 11 games they have played, in a stadium that only houses Moreirense. They lost to Porto, Sporting Braga and, surprisingly, Casa Pia, and drew with Benfica.
The meeting, scheduled for 20:15, in the Parque Desportivo Comendador Joaquim Almeida Freitas, is expected to return captain Coates, spared on Thursday due to the synthetic pitch, and Ousmane Diomande, who became the champion of the Nations Cup. serving Ivory Coast.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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