Comments and predictions for Sporting Lisbon vs Benfica: Losing the cup because of Gyökeres

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Sporting Lisbon will have to look for new goalscoring options without Viktor Gyökeres. Despite knowing the Swedish striker's intention to leave, the club has yet to invest heavily in finding a replacement.

In addition, young talent Dario Essugo has joined Chelsea, while Geovany Quenda will also leave the team in 2026 – although he will stay for another season. In the context of lacking a true striker, coach Rui Borges hopes Francisco Trincao can temporarily fill this gap.

Two other mainstays, Nuno Santos and Daniel Braganca, are still unable to return due to injuries from last season.

Meanwhile, Benfica has been quite active in the transfer market. The money from the Alvaro Carreras deal (to Real Madrid) was used to strengthen the squad and find a replacement for Angel Di Maria.

New signings including Amar Dedic, Samuel Dahl, Enzo Barrenechea and Richard Rios have all arrived at the Estadio da Luz. However, coach Bruno Lage will be without key defenders Alexander Bah and Tomas Araujo – who are still recovering from injuries sustained at the Club World Cup.

Latest expected lineup Sporting Lisbon vs Benfica

Sporting Lisbon:

Rui Silva; Debast, Diomande, Goncalo Inacio; Catamo, Hjulmand, Morita, Araujo; Quenda, Trincao, Pedro Goncalves

Benfica:

Trubin; Dedic, Antonio Silva, Otamendi, Dahl; Florentino Luis, Rios, Barrenechea; Schjelderup, Pavlidis, Akturkoglu

Latest Sporting Lisbon vs Benfica football review

Just over two months after their dramatic comeback win over Benfica in the Portuguese Cup final (Taca de Portugal), Sporting Lisbon are in another big game – the Portuguese Super Cup, which kicks off the new season.

In the final in May, Viktor Gyökeres scored a 100th-minute penalty to force extra time before Sporting won 3-1. That victory capped a turbulent season, with Ruben Amorim taking charge of Manchester United in November, which saw the team decline significantly. However, after a few changes to the coaching staff, Rui Borges brought the team back to the top of the league with a win over Guimaraes on the final day.

Sporting kick off their new league campaign against Casa Pia in just a week, but they will be without top scorer Gyökeres – who has opted out of pre-season and has now joined Arsenal.

Sporting begin their Gyökeres-less campaign with the Super Cup – a competition they have had little luck with in recent years. Despite leading 3-0 against Porto last year, they lost 4-3. Sporting have won the Super Cup just once in the past decade, in 2021 against Braga.

However, they have a psychological advantage as they are unbeaten in their last 7 matches against Benfica - an important factor in this match.

As for Benfica, Bruno Lage and his team had a busy summer when they participated in the Club World Cup in June. They played impressively, surpassing Bayern Munich to top the group, but then stopped before champions Chelsea.

The Super Cup will mark the start of Benfica’s domestic campaign, but they will not play their first league game until August 17 – away to Estrela. The fixture was pushed back to allow the team to focus fully on Champions League qualifying.

Benfica will have to overcome Nice in the third qualifying round – a tough task – before heading into the play-offs. Two crucial matches will decide who makes it to the group stage.

After returning from the US, Benfica played just one friendly – ​​a 3-2 win over Fenerbahce on Saturday – to prepare for this Super Cup.

Latest Sporting Lisbon vs Benfica score prediction

Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Sporting Lisbon vs Benficaas follows:

• Sportsmole:Sporting Lisbon 2-1 Benfica

• WhoScore:Sporting Lisbon 1-2 Benfica
• Our newspaper predicts:Sporting Lisbon 1-2 Benfica

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