{"id":858308,"date":"2025-06-26T22:12:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/sporting-beat-benfica-in-cup-final-to-complete-double\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T22:12:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T03:12:30","slug":"sporting-beat-benfica-in-cup-final-to-complete-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/sporting-beat-benfica-in-cup-final-to-complete-double\/","title":{"rendered":"Sporting beat Benfica in cup final to complete double"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sporting Lisbon defeated rivals Benfica 3-1 to claim the Portuguese Cup on Sunday and complete an impressive double after edging out the same opponent on the final day of the league season.\n<\/p>\n<p>Rui Borges\u2019 side forced extra-time with in-form striker Viktor Gyokeres\u2019 penalty in the 11th minute of stoppage time after Orkun Kokcu sent Benfica ahead in the 47th minute.\n<\/p>\n<p>Conrad Harder fired Sporting in front after 99 minutes and Francisco Trincao wrapped up the win at the death against their Lisbon rivals.\n<\/p>\n<p>Sporting\u2019s season was almost derailed when coach Ruben Amorim left to join Manchester United in November and his successor Joao Pereira struggled to get the team firing.\n<\/p>\n<p>Little over a month later Borges came in and steadied the ship, taking the team to a second successive Portuguese crown before making it a double.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe almost lost but in the last minute (we saved it), only a great team can do this,\u201d Sporting midfielder Morten Hjulmand told Sport TV. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an honour to be part of this team, I really enjoy it.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>In the 2024 final, Sporting were beaten by Porto and Hjulmand was happy to rectify that this time around.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe weren\u2019t completely satisfied last year, we were left with a bit of an empty feeling but now the cup is ours and we want to celebrate,\u201d he said.\n<\/p>\n<p>It may be the last game Gyokeres plays for the club, with the 26-year-old striker in-demand among Europe\u2019s top clubs after an excellent season, in which he scored 54 goals across all competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to ask him (about his future), he has a contract \u2014 if it were up to me he would stay,\u201d added Hjulmand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/sport\/sporting-beat-benfica-in-cup-final-to-complete-double\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sporting Lisbon defeated rivals Benfica 3-1 to claim the Portuguese Cup on Sunday and complete an impressive double after edging out the same opponent on the final day of the league season. Rui Borges\u2019 side forced extra-time with in-form striker Viktor Gyokeres\u2019 penalty in the 11th minute of stoppage time after Orkun Kokcu sent Benfica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":858309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94745,28436],"tags":[94744,8788],"class_list":{"0":"post-858308","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-benfica","8":"category-sporting","9":"tag-benfica","10":"tag-sporting"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}