Sporting rose to second place in the Campeonato Placard, with the same 18 points as leader Benfica and one more game, anticipated from the seventh round, by beating Famalicense, away, by 5-2.
The decisive moment of the match came at the start of the second half, with goals from Ferran Font (29 m) and Gonzalo Romero (30 m) in one minute, which gave Sporting a comfortable advantage to manage until the end of the match. At half-time, the teams were tied at two goals, after two supremacies by Sporting, by Toni Pérez (1 and 21 m), were annulled by Nuno Silva (16 m) and Juan Lopez (24 m). Gonzalo Romero fixed the result with a direct free kick (47 m).
Sporting is now waiting for the result of the duel between OC Barcelos and Benfica to settle in the table.
