Lisbon derby: title winner or losers?
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Lisbon derby: Sporting and Benfica in 'biggest derby for years'
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Sporting and Benfica meet in the Lisbon derby on Saturday with more than usual at stake.
The two sides are top of Liga Portugal , level on 78 points with two games remaining.
If the two teams are level on points by the end of the season then head-to-head record will decide the title winner.
Sporting have the advantage of being at home and if they win by at least a two -goal margin then they will reclaim the title.
" Around 90% of Portuguese people support Benfica , Porto or Sporting , so this is not only a Lisbon derby, but a national derby. " Two thirds of our population support Benfica and Sporting so the country will literally stop to see this. "Imagine Manchester and Liverpool , or Arsenal and Tottenham meeting at game 37 and whoever wins the game, wins the league, "It's massive and the atmosphere in the stadium and in the country will be electrifying.".