After being overtaken by Sporting on Saturday, Benfica drew with Arouca, on the 29th round of the League and lost the isolated lead of the league. After a first part of a lot of waste, Kokçü and Pavlidis seemed to have guaranteed the triumph, in a second half marked by a controversial penalty converted by Yalçin and that made the light doubt. It was in the final moments that Weverson dropped the bucket of cold water.
Another round in a fight for the title in Portugal that promises. After seeing Sporting sit in first place with the triumph against Santa Clara, Benfica had the opportunity to respond to the reception to Arouca. Bruno Lage did not want to take risks and put in theory the best team available.
Benfica’s first 45 minutes were suffocating. Arouca rarely managed to disturb Trubin and was not only found to disadvantage by manifest ineffectiveness of the incarnate strikers. Pavlidis hit the pole and saw Alex Pinto denying a goal almost certain, Kokçu fired over free, Fontán denied the head of Tomás Araújo and Mantl defended the shot of Akturkoglu.
The null to the interval made the light anxious and not even the appearance of Fabrizio Miccoli, the female team pentacal -champion and the birthday girl José Augusto calmed the fans. Worse were the fans with the start of Arouca, bossy, personalized and shaking the light, with Trezza enjoying the best opportunity, which Trubin denied.
It was precisely at the most tight time, where whistles were already heard and the desperation of the benches, which Benfica kicked the anxiety. Álvaro Carreras drew from the left, found ARSNES that damaged the Kokçü bomb (60 ‘)
In the next play, Akturkoglu forced Mantl the good defense and Di María failed the recharge. As they regretted when, at 67 ‘, Jason fell into the area, overthrown by Otamendi. António Nobre marked a penalty, Luís Godinho advised him to review the images and kept the same idea. Called to convert, Güven Yalçin did not waste and froze the light.
It began a phase of very nervousness. The isolated leadership looked like a thread, the uneasiness was beginning to notice. It was necessary to have a head and who better for that than Vangelis pavlidis? Following a quick -marked corner, Kokçü found the Greek to the second post that guaranteed the triumph 10 minutes from the final whistle.
Schjelderup still made the third but started from an irregular position. This helped uncertainty in the final moments, but Benfica seemed not to vacilciate. It was surprised, already in the last seven minutes of compensation that a ball loss resulted in Weverson’s goal and left the light completely silent.
A journey after being isolated in front, Benfica again had Sporting company at the top of the championship. In a sequence of nine wins, the incarnates were fought by an Arouca that scored in the light only for the second time in history.
FlashScore Game Man: Kokçü (Benfica)
