With no room to tremble, leaving no doubts on the stand, FC Porto returned to the league with the intention of putting pressure on Benfica and giving the best gift to Pinto da Costa, who celebrated his 85th birthday. At 23 seconds, he was already showing signs that he had come in to take out Arouca.
World champion Otávio opens the scoring and sets the course for a match that could not have been resolved before. After all, it was the fastest goal in this league. It didn’t take long for Veron to prove that he was the right bet in a match where Sérgio Conceição preferred to protect Pepê and protect him from further damage, following his nose injury against Gil Vicente.
The young Brazilian diamond took the shot which was saved by Arruabarena, with Otávio appearing to tap the ball into a ball for a rebound as happy as it was intentional. Veron will once again assist Taremi in a sublime way for the 2-0, in a tremendous maneuver involving the white and blue attack.
The comfort gave Conceição’s side confidence and inspiration and Otávio found Taremi for the Iranian who scored twice before the break. The Persian striker’s big night would be rewarded with a second-half hat-trick, catapulting him to the top of the table, level with Benfica’s Gonçalo Ramos. Both with 9 goals.
Dragão accelerated as he wanted, Arouca subsequently stranded in the back with several threats and a festival of goals poised in Arruabarena’s goal. The full house also came with the involuntary help of Opuku, who deflected a cross from Taremi, who was trying to find Toni Martinez, towards his goal.
Shortly after coming on, the Spaniard also celebrated his goal, but the move was disallowed for offside. Almost immediately Arouca scored the honor goal, thanks to a fine shot by Bruno Marques from the edge of the area. Until the end… a carousel of goals lost by the dragons with the leading role, in this particular one, for Toni Martínez, who collects the most inspired version of Arruabarena.
The 5-1 galvanizes the dragons in their goal of relaunching the Championship, approaching Benfica, now five points behind, despite one game less in Braga. Arouca sees a ten-game streak without a loss away from home broken.
