FC Porto will look for the ninth victory in other meetings in the Portuguese League of football, in the stronghold of Gil Vicente, after a new defeat to tell the Champions League, in front of the PSV Eindhoven, by 1-0, on Tuesday.
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21/10/2026
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O Sporting welcomes the Academic of Viseu and Benfica travels to the Azores to face the team feeling of the race, Santa Clara.
The days leading up to round nine of the championship are marked by the departures of three coaches, with greater emphasis on Carlos Vicens, who left the technical command of Sporting Braga, after the departure with Gil Vicente (2-1), on Monday, having been replaced by Franclim Carvalho.
Carlos Carvalhal and Alexandre Santos were also dismissed from the positions of trainer of Famalicão and Nacional, respectively, after eliminations in the third elimination of the Cup of Portugal, before Paredes, League 3, and Sanjoanense, the fourth echelon.
Portists, who add 24 points to the top of the ranking, against the 19 of ‘eagles’, second classified, and 19 of Sporting, third, enter the field first than the direct rivals, and may, in case of triumph, shoot for a provisional ‘cushion’ of eight points of advantage over the ‘carnates’ and nine against the ‘lions’.
If the course in the FC Champions League Porto this season has not been the desired, due to the outings with Manchester City (2-0), Betis (3-2) and PSV Eindhoven (1-0), this last on Tuesday, in the I League everything runs by feature.
However, on Saturday, from 8:30 pm, difficulties are expected at Barcelos City Stadium, where the ‘dragons’ will measure forces with the sixth position, which won the three previous challenges for all competitions.
In view of the trip to the field of the Cypriots of Omonia, on Thursday, counting for the third day of the League Europa league phase, Benfica will be the last of the ‘three big’ to play and the one responsible for closing the round on Monday at 5:45 locals (18:45, Lisbon hours).
In the Azores, Benfica will have in front the fourth ranked, which continues undefeated in the race, despite the elimination of the Cup by Mafra, League 3, being deprived of the Argentine Enzo Barrenechea, injured, and also with Polish Jakub Kamiński and Daniel Banjaqui in doubt.
The most accessible task will be Sporting at the reception to the Academic of Viseu, another of the cousins away from the Cup of Portugal, the ‘feet’ of Fatima, the fourth echelon, but in a sequence of four vitrorios in the championship.
Before the confrontation with the Academic, on Sunday, at 8:30 pm, the ‘greens and whites’ go looking for the third triumph followed in the ‘Champions’, also in Alvalade, against the Austrians of LASK Linz, in a game in which the Belgian Zeno Debast and the Uruguayan Rodrigo Zalazar will be absent due to injury.
Moreover, the round opens on Friday, with the reception of Vitória de Guimarães à Marítimo, from 20:00, continuing on Saturday with the game Amadora-Casa Pia Star and Alverca, which was on the way in the race 'Queen', because of Tondela, the II League, receiving the Arouca.
On Sunday, the red lantern Estoril Praia, the only team that has not yet won in the championship, will host Moreirense, eliminated by the secondary AVS of the race 'Queen', Rio Ave receives the Famalicão and Sporting Braga travels to Madeira to face the antepenultimate national position.