The dragons entered bossily but ran into a defensive wall consistent and supportive of the Algarve. Toni Martínez was the most restless and dangerous with three good chances. It was worth Nakamura’s safety. Galeno also created difficulties for the Algarve.However, Portimonense’s resistance only lasted half an hour, when centre-back Fábio Cardoso scored a header from Wendell’s assist. The Algarve didn’t attack much and Welinton came close to scoring, but shot into the side net, in a move in which Cláudio Ramos had a hasty exit.In the complementary stage, the law of the strongest continued to prevail. With supported football, more oiled, FC Porto maintained the same error in finishing. Galeno still scored a goal, but the match judge annulled it after consulting VAR. Signaled a foul by Toni Martínez on Diaby at the start of the play. The Algarve had difficulties in explaining their attack and when they did, the difficulties in bothering Cláudio Ramos were notorious. The expulsion of Lucas Ventura (71′) ended up killing the Algarve’s ambition to score.POSITIVE
Fábio Cardoso and the goal
The blue and white centre-back took over from David Carmo (costing 20 million euros) and yesterday he put an end to all doubts when he scored the goal that won Porto over the Algarve. It was the third at the time.
NEGATIVE
Lucas will be expelled
Midfielder Lucas Ventura compromised Portimonense’s ambition when he was sent off for a double yellow card (52′ and 71′). In the second he lost position to Toni Martínez and had to resort to the foul.
ARBITRATION
goal well disallowed
In a nervous referee, with some errors, Miguel Nogueira did well to annul Galeno’s goal, due to a foul by Toni Martínez at the beginning of the game. As well as the expulsion of Lucas Ventura.
Quartet escapes yellow card and plays derby
The four FC Porto players who were at risk of missing the derby with Benfica if they were shown a yellow card yesterday ended the game without being admonished. Galeno (74′) and Taremi (84′) were substituted, but Wendell played the full 90 minutes. Grujic didn’t even leave the bench. Pepe was also at risk of exclusion, but missed the game due to injury. It should be noted that, at Benfica, only Florentino was in this situation yesterday.
Very special
“It’s always very special [marcar]the most important thing was to win, we won all of them and I’m happy for that, because we didn’t concede goals and it’s about continuing to work”, said Fábio Cardoso, scorer of the only goal of the match. most important of the season because it’s next.”
divided family
Sérgio Conceição had by his side, on the FC Porto bench, his son Rodrigo Conceição. On the side of Portimonense was another of the sons, he was also Sérgio.
Return to be owner
Wilson Manafá was Sérgio Conceição’s bet for the starting eleven. The 28-year-old right-back had only been used in three games for the first team (53 minutes) and eight for the B team this season. Manafá has not been in the starting line-up since 30 December 2021, when he seriously injured his knee in a 3-1 win against Benfica.
