League Cup – Sporting-Benfica: on which channel and at what time to watch the match?

This Saturday evening (8:45 p.m.), Sporting and Benfica will meet in Leiria to play the final of the Portuguese League Cup.

It’s finally the big night. For the two Lisbon rivals, this Saturday it will be about expanding the gallery of trophies with the grand final of the Portuguese League Cup. To reach this final stage of the competition, Sporting and Benfica respectively eliminated FC Porto and SC Braga in the last few days, during the semi-finals of the competition.

A Lisbon derby in the final

If the two behemoths of Lisbon will hold the attention of Portuguese football fans this Saturday evening, it is the Leiria side that we will have to go to. This final, scheduled from 8:45 p.m., will take place at the Estádio Dr. Magalhães Pessoa, in front of more than 20,000 spectators.

A meeting that is uncertain to say the least, between two groups which experience very different contexts. Although deprived of several senior players, Sporting has found a smile again since the arrival of new coach Rui Borges, notably with major successes against Benfica in the league, then against FC Porto in the semi-final of the Cup. of the League.

For the Incarnatesthe trend is significantly less exciting: the Lisbon team was coming off two defeats in a row, including one against its next opponent, before returning to the path of victory this week against Braga.

The match will not be broadcast in France

Like the two semi-finals, the grand final of the Portuguese League Cup will not be broadcast in France. In fact, none of the French broadcasters have obtained the rights to broadcast this competition live. To follow the meeting between Sporting and Benfica, you will therefore have to go to one of the two Portuguese channels which broadcast the event: namely SIC and Sport TV1.