🇵🇹 Porto stun leaders Benfica in Lisbon to keep title race alive | OneFootball

Benfica hosted rivals Porto in a top-table clash on Friday with the visitors coming out on top after a 2-1 win.

Scorers: Costa 10′ (OG); Uribe 45′, Taremi 55′

As the league leaders hosted second place, it was a fiery contest over 90 minutes between Benfica and Porto.

The hosts didn’t wait long to open the scoring thanks to leading scorer Gonçalo Ramos who lept higher than any defender to head home. It officially went down as a Diogo Costa own-goal though.

Yet after conceding early, Porto demonstrated they were very much still up for the challenge, and drama took place just before the break as things remained a one-goal game.

Mateus Uribe capitalised on Benfica’s flat-footed defence for 1-1, and five minutes later, the Dragons thought they had turned it around.

VAR then controversially denied Wenderson Galeno’s perfectly slotted goal offside by an astonishing six centimetres.

Coming out after the break, both sides looked to ramp up the pressure, and despite the inside of a rocking Estádio da Luz being a sea of red, the men wearing blue managed to get the job done.

Ramos, Rafa Silva, and João Mário’s impact on the game died out over time (finishing the game with only one shot on target) while the likes of Otávio and Mehdi Taremi stepped up for the visitors.

Coming into this game, the Dragons had only scored once in 270 minutes.

A miscue from Benfica’s defence allowed the ball to bounce in front of Taremi, and Porto’s leading scorer drilled into the far corner from outside the box for 2-1.

The hosts used the remaining 30 minutes to push for another but couldn’t come up with any answers and the title race is blown wide open. It’s a huge mental lapse, too with their crunch clash with Inter in the Champions League next.

Only seven points separate the clubs in Portugal and with seven matches to go, it’s still anyone’s title.