On Saturday, August 20, at “Estadio do Dragao” from 22:30, the scoring match “Porto” – “Sporting Lisbon” of the 3rd stage of the Portuguese championship will take place.

FC Porto (2021-2022) and Sporting Lisbon (2020-2021), the last two champions of Portugal, will meet quite early in the current Premier League season.

FC Porto, coached by former Portugal international Sergio Conceição since 2017, are the champions “en titre”, having finished last season with 6 points over Sporting Lisbon.

The Dragons finished the event by also winning the Portuguese Cup, 3-1 in the final against Tondela, a team they also beat 3-0 in the Super Cup.

In the current season, Porto has 6 points after two legs, 5-1 with Maritimo Funchal and 1-0 with Visela.

Sporting Lisbon, with Ruben Amorim on the bench from 2020, were second last season, but the Lions are not even thinking about any other goal than regaining the title.

The Whites and Greens started the campaign with a 3-3 draw away to Braga, then beat Rio Ave 3-0 at home, leaving them with just 4 points.

The rivalry between the two teams began in the 1934-35 season and since then they have met 243 times in all competitions.

FC Porto won 88 times, Sporting Lisbon won 83 matches and 72 matches ended in a draw.

In the last 10 direct matches, the “dragons” won four times, the “lions” once, and there were five draws.

Last season, Porto and Sporting Lisbon drew twice, 1-1 against Alvalade and 2-2 against Dragao, and the Dragons beat the Lions twice in the quarter-finals of the Portuguese Cup. “, 2-1 away and 1-0 at home.

Superbet offers odds of 1.72 for a draw at half-time or at the end of the match between FC Porto and Sporting Lisbon.

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