Sporting Clube de Portugal coming for this season as the Champion in title (league) and made a really good pre-season with 7 wins and a 1 draw where they conceded the last goal in the 90th minute. They lost one of their best players, Joao Mario the European Champion and with a lot of international experience as he played in West Ham, Lokomotiv, Inter Milano. He was the responsible to put some calm in the team and to put ice in the game. The deal was very strange, as Sporting offered 5.5M for Joao Mario and Inter rejected and then he terminated the contract and joined Benfica in a free deal, it was the player's will to join the rival and to work again with Jorge Jesus. For this game they will have another important miss, the right-defender Pedro Porro (loaned by Manchester City) as he made a sprain against Portimonense in Lagos. Sporting made good activity in the market with good players, but second line players like Ruben Vinagre, an amazing left-defender but will be bench of Nuno Mendes (will be one of the best left-defenders in the world in the next 5 years), Ricardo Esgaio will be bench of Pedro Porro when he is again in good conditions, they bought an amazing player formed on Porto, Goncalo Esteves but will play for Sporting B as he has only 17 years and is a project player. Manuel Ugarte will come in the next days to sign and to fight for a place in the midfield. Their best players came 1 week and a half only and are not in good conditions as they showed in the last friendly against Lyon, I mean Joao Palhinha, Pedro Goncalves, Nuno Mendes and Sebastian Coates. The first 3 were playing the European Cup for Portugal and Coates came from the Copa America. I expect Sporting to have a lot of problems as the best players are not in the best shape and without Joao Mario and Porro.

Probable line-up: Adan; Ricardo Esgaio - Goncalo Inacio - Coates - Feddal - Nuno Mendes; Joao Palhinha - Matheus Nunes; Nuno Santos - Pedro Goncalves and Paulinho.

Braga made a really good last season, even with a very bad finish in the league we cannot forget what they did before and even after that bad results they had the capacity to beat Benfica for Portugal Cup. I saw 3 matches of them of this pre-season, against Farense where they rotated all the team and so felt a lot of difficulties and Farense deserved to win that one, but then against Marseille they put the best XI in the 1st half and in the halftime changed 11 players. Because of that, I think it's better to talk only about the 1st half as the team that played the 1st half will be the same XI that will play tomorrow against Sporting. They dominated Marseille and created 3-4 clear chances to score and didn't concede a single chance to Marseille, even Payet couldn't do anything in the 1st half. And the last match, the presentation match against Pacos Ferreira where they just scored the 2nd goal in the last 5 minutes of the game, but they were clearly the best team and again created many many chances. To be honest, for this season I see Braga as a serious candidate to the title. For this season they lost Ricardo Esgaio to Sporting that for sure will start in the XI and probably will lose Al Musrati until the end of the market, but for sure he will play tomorrow. But they bought really good players like Tiago Esgaio (Ricardo Esgaio's brother), Paulo Oliveira who showed in these friendly matches that will be the boss of the defense, Lucas Mineiro who was the best player of Gil Vicente and Mario Gonzalez who scored 15 goals for Tondela, what is impressive. They have some absences for tomorrow, Lucas Mineiro, Fabio Martins and Lucas Piazon, but even if they were able to play they wouldn't start the game, so they are not so important like that. Abel Ruiz is in an incredible moment, he was the man of the match in Braga's last official match against Benfica and already scored goals in the pre-season.

Probable line-up: Matheus; Fabiano - Tormena - Paulo Oliveira - Sequeira - Galeno; Al Musrati - Andre Castro; Ricardo Horta - Fransergio and Abel Ruiz.

I don't see Sporting as favorite here, Braga is slightly in better moment than them

葡萄牙体育俱乐部本赛季以冠军（联赛）的身份出征，并在季前赛以 7 胜 1 平的成绩表现出了非常出色的状态。他们失去了他们最好的球员之一，欧洲冠军若昂马里奥，他在西汉姆、火车头和国际米兰踢球时拥有丰富的国际经验。他负责让球队保持冷静，并在比赛中保持冷静。这笔交易很奇怪，葡萄牙体育出价 550 万，国米拒绝了，然后他终止了合同，以自由交易的形式加盟本菲卡，球员的意愿是加入对手并与豪尔赫·耶稣再次合作。对于这场比赛，他们将有另一个重要的缺席，右后卫佩德罗·波罗（由曼城租借）在拉各斯对阵波尔蒂蒙塞时扭伤。葡萄牙体育在转会市场上表现出色，拥有优秀的球员，像鲁本·维纳格雷这样的二线球员，一个了不起的左后卫，但将成为努诺的替补门德斯（将是未来 5 年世界上最好的左后卫之一），里卡多·埃斯盖奥将在佩德罗·波罗恢复良好状态时成为他的替补，他们购买了在波尔图表现的出色球员贡卡洛·埃斯特维斯为B队效力，因为他只有 17 岁。曼努埃尔·乌加特（Manuel Ugarte）将在接下来的几天内签约并争夺中场位置。他们最好的球员只进行了 1 周半的热身，状态并不好，就像他们在上一场对阵里昂的友谊赛中所表现的那样，比如Joao Palhinha、Pedro Goncalves、Nuno Mendes 和 Sebastian Coates。这三名是踢了欧洲杯，美洲杯的比赛。我预计葡萄牙体育会遇到很多问题，因为最好的球员并没有处于最佳状态，而且还缺少了Joao Mario 和 Porro。

布拉加上赛季的表现非常出色，即使在联赛中的表现非常糟糕，我们也不能忘记他们在取得糟糕成绩之前和之后的表现，他们有能力击败本菲卡参加葡萄牙杯。我在季前赛中看了他们的 3 场比赛，对阵法伦塞，他们轮换了所有球员，所以感觉很多困难，法伦塞理应赢得那场比赛，但是对阵马赛，他们在上半场和下半场派出了最好的首发球员。半场换了11名球员。正因为如此，我认为最好只谈论上半场，因为上半场比赛的球队将是明天对阵葡萄牙体育的同一个阵容。他们完全占据了优势，创造了3-4的进球机会，没有给马赛机会，上半场就连帕耶也无能为力。而最近一场比赛，对阵帕科斯费雷拉的比赛，他们在比赛的最后 5 分钟打进了第 2 个进球，但他们显然是最好的球队，并再次创造了很多机会。老实说，在本赛季，我认为布拉加是冠军的热门。他们把里卡多·埃斯盖奥（Ricardo Esgaio）送到了葡萄牙体育，本场他肯定会在首发阵容中，并且可能还会在市场结束前失去 Al Musrati，但他肯定会在明天上场。他们也买了非常优秀的球员，比如蒂亚戈·埃斯盖奥（里卡多·埃斯盖奥的兄弟），在友谊赛中表现出色的保罗·奥利维拉将成为防守的核心，卢卡斯·米内罗是吉尔·维森特的最佳球员，马里奥·冈萨雷斯打进了 15 个进球。他们明天有一些缺席，卢卡斯米内罗，法比奥马丁斯和卢卡斯皮亚松，但即使他们能够上场他们也不会首发，所以他们没有那么重要。阿贝尔·鲁伊斯（Abel Ruiz）处于绝佳的状态，他是布拉加上一场对阵本菲卡的比赛中的最佳球员，并且已经在季前赛中取得进球。

我不看好葡萄牙体育能够战胜布拉加。