The time is edging ever-closer to the Benfica vs Sporting Lisbon Primeira Liga clash which is rapidly nearing kick-off, and the team line-ups have now been announced.
Let’s look at the starting line-up for Benfica which has been confirmed as follows:
Benfica
Anatoliy Trubin
Goalkeeper
Height: 1.99m
Weight: 86kg
Age: 23
Nationality: Ukraine
Place of birth: Donetsk, Ukraine
Álvaro Carreras #3
Defender
Height: 1.86m
Weight: 80kg
Age: 22
Nationality: Spain
Place of birth: Ferrol, Spain
Nicolás Otamendi #19
Defender
Height: 1.83m
Weight: 81kg
Age: 37
Nationality: Argentina
Place of birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
António João Tavares Silva #4
Also known as António Silva
Defender
Height: 1.87m
Weight: 79kg
Age: 21
Nationality: Portugal
Place of birth: Viseu, Portugal
Tomás Lemos Araújo #44
Also known as Tomás Araújo
Defender
Height: 1.87m
Weight: 81kg
Age: 22
Nationality: Portugal
Place of birth: Famalicão, Portugal
Florentino Ibrain Morris Luís #61
Also known as Florentino
Midfielder
Height: 1.84m
Weight: 74kg
Age: 25
Nationality: Portugal
Place of birth: Lobito, Angola
Fredrik Aursnes #8
Midfielder
Height: 1.79m
Weight: 71kg
Age: 29
Nationality: Norway
Place of birth: Hareid, Norway
Orkun Kökçü #10
Midfielder
Height: 1.8m
Weight: 70kg
Age: 24
Nationality: Turkey
Place of birth: Haarlem, Netherlands
Kerem Aktürkoğlu
Forward
Height: 1.73m
Weight: 70kg
Age: 26
Nationality: Turkey
Place of birth: Kocaeli, Turkey
Ángel Di María #11
Forward
Height: 1.8m
Weight: 75kg
Age: 37
Nationality: Argentina
Place of birth: Rosario, Argentina
Vangelis Pavlidis
Forward
Height: 1.86m
Weight: 82kg
Age: 26
Nationality: Greece
Place of birth: Thessaloniki, Greece
The team sheet line-up for Sporting Lisbon has also been confirmed as follows:
Sporting Lisbon
Rui Tiago Dantas da Silva
Also known as Rui Silva
Goalkeeper
Height: 1.89m
Weight: 85kg
Age: 31
Nationality: Portugal
Place of birth: Maia, Portugal
Zeno Debast
Defender
Height: 1.91m
Weight: 83kg
Age: 21
Nationality: Belgium
Place of birth: Belgium
Gonçalo Bernardo Inácio #25
Also known as Gonçalo Inácio
Defender
Height: 1.87m
Weight: 80kg
Age: 23
Nationality: Portugal
Place of birth: Portugal
Ousmane Diomande #26
Defender
Height: 1.9m
Weight: 86kg
Age: 21
Nationality: Ivory Coast
Place of birth: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Eduardo Filipe Quaresma Vieira #72
Also known as Eduardo Quaresma
Defender
Height: 1.85m
Weight: 78kg
Age: 23
Nationality: Portugal
Place of birth: Barreiro, Portugal
Morten Hjulmand
Midfielder
Height: 1.85m
Weight: 77kg
Age: 25
Nationality: Denmark
Place of birth: Denmark
Pedro António Pereira Gonçalves #8
Also known as Pedro Gonçalves
Midfielder
Height: 1.73m
Weight: 77kg
Age: 26
Nationality: Portugal
Place of birth: Vidago, Portugal
Francisco António Machado Mota Trincão #17
Also known as Trincão
Forward
Height: 1.84m
Weight: 73kg
Age: 25
Nationality: Portugal
Place of birth: Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Maximiliano Araújo #20
Forward
Height: 1.77m
Weight: 74kg
Age: 25
Nationality: Uruguay
Place of birth: Montevideo, Uruguay
Geny Catamo #21
Forward
Height: 1.74m
Weight: 66kg
Age: 24
Nationality: Mozambique
Place of birth: Maputo, Mozambique
Viktor Gyökeres
Forward
Height: 1.87m
Weight: 86kg
Age: 26
Nationality: Sweden
Place of birth: Sweden
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