Benfica v Porto, Portugal’s 27th round tie, will take place on Friday 7th April at 20:00 at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon and will be broadcast live on Prima Sport 3.

Benfica and Porto meet in a new episode of O Classico, as the Portuguese derby is known, in which Porto have one last chance to revive the championship final, given that Benfica are the undisputed leaders of the Premier League.

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 are in first place with 71 points, 10 more than their arch-rivals, and come into the derby on the back of a ten-game winning streak in the league, which has also seen them reach the quarter-finals of the Champions League. , after 2-0 away and 5-1 at home to Club Brugge, the Belgian champions.

The Eagles from Lisbon have been coached since last summer by Roger Schmidt, the Austrian champion with RB Salzburg and who recently coached PSV Eindhoven, with whom they won the Dutch Cup and Super Cup.

At the last stage of the championship, “Benfica” went away from “Rio Ave” with a score of 1:0, and after the derby will play a “double” of the Champions League with “Inter” Milan, a team that even eliminated “Porto” in the 1/8 finals ( 1- 0 at home in the tour, 0-0 away in return).

Porto are in 2nd place with 61 points and have won eight, drawn and lost their last 10 league matches, during which they were relegated from the Champions League, but won the League Cup after a 2-0 final against Sporting. .

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 Lazio in Rome and Inter Milan, who already has three titles and two national cups. record , League Cup and three Super Cups, all won at Porto’s technical bench.

In the last match of the championship, Porto beat Portimonense at home with a score of 1:0.

Benfica won the match against Porto directly at the Estadio do Dragao with a score of 1-0 (Rafa Silva 72), the first success in the last 10 direct matches after seven successes and two draws.

Superbet offers odds of 1.28 on the 1X prediction: a home win or a draw in the match between Benfica and Porto.

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