​Benfica vs Porto Portuguese Super Cup countdown match will take place on Wednesday, August 9 at 22:45 at the Estadio Municipal in Aveiro and will be broadcast live on superbet.ro (live stream).

Benfica and Porto open the new season in Portugal with a new episode of O Classico, this time at stake is the Candido de Oliveira trophy, named after the former footballer, coach and journalist who was born in 1896 and died in 1958.

The first match played between the two legendary teams of Portuguese football was a friendly in 1912, won by Benfica. It took Porto eight years to achieve their first success and another nine years to achieve their second.

Benfica won the last season of the Portuguese league for the first time in four years, with just two points over arch-rivals Porto, and also had an excellent season in the Champions League, losing in the quarter-finals to Inter (0-2 at home and 3- 3 on the way out).

Since last summer, the “vultures” have been coached by Roger Schmidt, a former football player who played in the regional leagues of Germany, but who as a coach won the championship and the Austrian Cup with RB Salzburg (both in 2014), the Cup (2022) and the Super Cup (2021). in Holland with PSV Eindhoven, plus a title in Portugal with Benfica (2023).

Benfica have played six friendlies this summer, winning four of them, 2-0 against Southampton, 3-1 against Basel, 4-1 against Al-Nasr and 2-0 against Celta Vigo , and two defeats in the last matches. , 0-2 with Burnley and 1-2 with Feyenoord.

Porto finished 2nd in the last Premier League season but salvaged the season by winning two trophies, the League Cup (2-0 in the final against Sporting in Leiria) and the Portuguese Cup (2-0 in the final against Braga ) played in Oeiras).

Since 2017, the “dragons” have been coached by their former player Sergio Conceição (56 matches and 12 goals for the Portuguese national team), who also played, in particular, for Rome’s Lazio and Inter Milan, who already has three titles and three national cups. record , League Cup and three Super Cups, all won at Porto’s technical bench.

Porto have played four friendlies this summer, winning twice, 2-0 at Portimonense and 4-0 at Cardiff, a 1-1 draw at Rayo Vallecano and a 0-1 loss at Wolverhampton Wanderers. .

The last time the two teams met was in the previous season in the Portuguese league, when each won at home, Benfica 1-0 in the first leg and Porto 2-1 in the second leg.

Superbet offers odds of 1.85 on the GG prediction: both teams will score in the main time 90 minutes in the match Benfica – Porto.

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