The focus battle in the 22nd round of the Portuguese Premier League, the pinnacle of the leader Porto and the defending champions Sporting Lisbon, will not be long to begin. Before the start of the new round of European football weekend, the highlight of the Portuguese Super League will be carried out early, in addition to the reasons for the start of the Champions League and europa League knockout matches next week, the staggered opening can also attract more fans, after all, this kind of Champions League-level matchup, the attraction is still better than the middle and lower reaches of the five major leagues, Yangyang naturally also wants to talk to you more about this game.
First of all, look at Porto, although they are out of the group in the Champions League, but in the domestic league showed super dominance, not only the season so far unbeaten, home wins, but also from the 8th round, but also got 8 consecutive away wins, and now with a wave of 16 consecutive wins, equaling the record of consecutive wins in the Boas period that year, as a young manager Concesson, there is no reason not to want to lead the team to create their own new history.
However, a team with such a strong performance, if placed in the five major leagues, can already calculate the matter of winning the championship in the early rounds, but here is the Portuguese Premier League, the pattern of the top three is difficult to break, as the defending champion of Sporting Lisbon, still have the opportunity to counterattack the leader. As long as the game is won at the Dragon Stadium, the point difference with Porto will be reduced to 3 points, and the gap between one game and one game will still have a chance. After all, Porto currently only have 16 consecutive wins, not 18 consecutive wins, because the 8th round of away draw just mentioned is due to Sporting Lisbon, so they only have one goal for this game, that is, to fight for 3 points, otherwise it is too difficult to chase 9 points in the last 12 rounds.
So, from this point of view, Porto naturally has more reasons and motivation to score 3 points, some people may say that with Porto's current lead, as long as they do not lose, it is acceptable to get 1 point, after all, the 6-point difference is enough for them to lay the championship advantage, is a new winning streak more important than the league championship? Wouldn't it be worth the loss to kick Sporting Lisbon out of the way? For this, Yangyang feels that there is really no need to doubt Porto's desire to win this game, because in addition to the reason of creating a new winning streak, Porto has at least 2 momentum to win.
One of them is that Porto are going to play the Europa League next week, and their game starts two days later than Sporting Lisbon, which gives them almost a week of preparation, so in terms of personnel deployment and rotation, there is more initiative, and the current Atlético Lisbon squad is not complete, the main right-back Polo has accumulated a yellow card suspension, and the top scorer Pedro can not play with injuries. If you can't take advantage of the fact that you and your number one competitor are in the biggest gap between this and the other, missing this opportunity may not only be a simple matter of losing points, but more importantly, confidence and morale will be damaged. And the other point is the most critical, but also need to knock on the blackboard - the Portuguese Premier League in the case of the same points between the two teams, ranking first than the winner-loser relationship, and then the goal difference, in the first leg of the two teams 1:1 draw, once Porto loses this game, at the end of the season as long as they are chased by Sporting Lisbon for 3 points, the league championship will be lost, and even the big score draw will be because of the lack of away goals.
Therefore, in combination with these circumstances, Porto has more reasons to win than Sporting Lisbon, and the opponent has achieved their expected benefits for the season in the case of reaching the Champions League knockout rounds, coupled with having won a league cup that has little practical significance, but it is also an honor, making them look very hopeful to grab 3 points to counterattack, perhaps not so enough. Coupled with the lack of a tidy lineup, if you really want to send a personal affection to Porto at the moment, you may have a potential surprise return in the near future. Of course, these are just the words of the Yangyang family, only for your reference, please include more inappropriate, and thank you for your patience!