Victory motivates dragons ahead of derby

With seven injury casualties, some important ones such as Diogo Costa, Pepe, Evanilson and Joao Mario, coach Sergio Conceição presented a difficult squad with a focus on Manaf’s comeback (he hasn’t been in the starting XI since December 2021) and his league debut Claudio Ramos in goal.

The dragons entered imperiously but ran into a defensive wall, staunch and supporting the Algarve. The most hectic and dangerous was Tony Martinez with three good chances. Nakamura’s safety was worth it. Galeno also created difficulties for the Algarve.

However, Portimonense’s resistance lasted only half an hour when center Fabio Cardoso scored a header from Wendell’s pass.

The Algarve did not attack much and Wellinton came close to scoring a goal, but shot into the side net, causing Claudio Ramos to hastily retire.

At the additional stage, the law of the fittest continued to prevail. With football supported, more lubricated, Porto kept the same mistake in finishing. Galeno did score a goal, but the match referee annulled it after consulting VAR. Called Tony Martinez’s foul on Diaby early in the game. The Algarve found it difficult to explain their attack, and when they did, Claudio Ramos’s notorious difficulty in troubling was notorious. The sending off of Lucas Ventura (71ft) ended up killing the Algarve’s drive to score.

POSITIVELY
Fabio Cardoso and goal
The blue-and-white centre-back replaced David Carmo (worth €20m) and he put an end to all doubts yesterday by scoring the winning goal against the Algarve. At that time it was the third.

NEGATIVE
Lucas Ventura ruled out
Midfielder Lucas Ventura compromised Portimonense’s ambitions when he was sent off for a double yellow card (52ft and 71ft). In the second, he lost the position to Tony Martinez and was forced to use a foul.

ARBITRATION
goal not scored
In a nerve-wracking referee with some errors, Miguel Nogueira succeeded by nullifying Galeno’s goal due to a foul by Tony Martinez early in the game. And also the exile of Lucas Ventura.

“Four” avoided a yellow card and played in a derby
Four Porto players who risked missing the derby against Benfica if they were shown a yellow card yesterday ended the game without warning. Galeno (74′) and Taremi (84′) were substituted, but Wendell played the full 90 minutes. Grujic didn’t even leave the bench. Pepe was also in danger of being eliminated, but missed the game due to injury. It is worth noting that only Florentino was in such a situation yesterday at Benfica.

Special
“It’s always very special [marcar]the most important thing was to win, we won everything and I’m happy about that because we didn’t concede and kept working,” said Fabio Cardoso, the scorer of the only goal of the season, because it’s next.”

divided family
Next to Sergio Conceição on the bench for Porto was his son Rodrigo Conceição. On the side of Portimonense was another of the sons, he is Sergio.

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Wilson Manafa was Sergio Conceição’s bet for the starting XI. The 28-year-old right-back has played just three games for the first team (53 minutes) and eight for the B team this season. Manafa has not been in the starting line-up since December 30, 2021, when he seriously injured his knee in a win over Benfica 3:1.