Highlight for the presence of a familiar face of European football in the stands at the Marcolino Castro Stadium: Rob Holding, Arsenal’s English center and teammate of Paige Almendariz, SC Braga’s North American, is an attentive spectator of this final
16′ Ana Vitória wins the second ball and tries her luck from outside the area: the ball fired by the Benfica player goes deflected into a corner
8′ Counterattack very well conducted by the eagles, with Cloé Lacasse appearing in Patrícia Morais’ face: the SC Braga goalkeeper removes the threat to a corner
4′ Yellow card to Catarina Pereira (SC Braga)
4′ Andreia Norton’s free kick, with the ball crossing the entire area
1′ Ana Rute appears loose in Benfica’s area and misses the target by very little, in a half-turn shot!
1′ The League Cup final begins at Marcolino de Castro Stadium!
Benfica and SC Braga will compete, this Wednesday, in the final of the Women’s Football League Cup. The match will take place at Marcolino Castro Stadium, in Santa Maria da Feira, with kick-off at 7.30 pm.
It is a replay of the first final of the competition (2019/20), which the eagles won after a 3-0 victory. Their dominance in the competition was confirmed last season (2020/21), with a new trophy for the Luz Museum: a 2-1 triumph over Sporting.
The match will be refereed by Filipa Cunha (AF Viana do Castelo), who will have Andreia Sousa and Rafaela Almeida as assistants and Telma Frade as 4th referee. Catarina Campos assumes the functions of VAR and Bruno Esteves assumes the functions of AVAR.
Rui Costa and António Salvador, presidents of Benfica and SC Braga, respectively, are in the tribune of honor at the fairgrounds.
There are already eleven!
Benfica: Talbert; Catarina Amado, Sílvia Rebelo cap., Carole Costa and Lúcia Alves; Andreia Faria, Pauleta, Kika Nazareth and Ana Vitória; Jessica Silva and Chloe Lacasse
Benfica substitutes: Carolina Vilão, Ana Seiça, Valéria Cantuário, Marta Cintra, Christy Ucheibe, Cassandra Korhonen and Beatriz Cameirão.
Benfica Coach: Filipa Patão
SC Braga: Patricia Morais; Catarina Pereira, Anouk Dekker, Diana Gomes and Machaela George; Jermaine, Dolores Silva cap., Andreia Norton and Myra Delgadillo; Carolina Mendes and Ana Ruth
Coach SC Braga: João Marques
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