Benfica points the finger at Sporting players due to the incidents that marked last night’s derby, in the semi-final match of the championship, with several aggressions, and asks for intervention from the Federation.
«[O] Saturday [fica] unfortunately marked by the unfortunate behavior of Sporting’s hockey players. Sport Lisboa e Benfica strongly repudiates the episodes recorded during the roller hockey derby at Pavilhão Fidelidade. Were they too serious? review TV images? and cannot go unpunished”, says the publication News Benfica.
«The Portuguese Skating Federation cannot ignore situations such as those that occurred in game 2 of the semi-final of the championship. Impunity has prevailed for too long for some agents in this modality. It all started with a clear aggression from Ferrant Font, in the first half, to our goalkeeper Pedro Henriques, and ended with a stretch from João Souto in the belly of Lucas Ordoñez – moments before he had already been the target of a by the recidivist Ângelo Girão – and with a punch from Henrique Magalhães to Pablo Álvarez», he recalls.
«These reprehensible behavior of Sporting Clube de Portugal athletes must be punished, severely and exemplarily. And now. The FPP Disciplinary Board has the floor. We won the game 3-2. The tie is tied with a win for each side and is played to the best of five», it concludes.
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