The derby of the two teams coming from the Portuguese-speaking world started out in a hellish heat, with Sporting dominating the first five minutes; in the 6th minute, however, Brazilian Carbone, the goal-scorer against Genk, only missed the right post by some inches following a free-kick from the right. Five minutes later, after another corner coming in from the right, João Pereira headed the ball over the goal, but one more minute later the scoreboard already showed that SCP had taken the lead, after centre forward Rodrigo Ribeiro used Diogo Travassos’s excellent pass to put the ball past the keeper with a half turn and give the lead to the Lusitan side (0–1).

The green-and-white team continued to dominate the match against the defending champion which played surprisingly restrained and unimaginative football, and their superiority showed itself yet in another goal, although this time not as the result of a precisely elaborated move. In the 23rd minute, Ribeiro and Luís Gomes went for a kick-and-run ball without too many chances, but goalkeeper Lucão, defending completely off-form just like yesterday, was somehow clumsy enough to serve the ball to them, and Gomes fired into the empty goal with a spectacular half-bicycle.

The Brazilian side, crowd-favourites in the previous two editions of the Puskás-Suzuki Cup, this time with a rather “alien” style, had to pull themselves together to have a chance even for one point. The Portuguese squad, having a two-goal lead, no longer attacked with the same energy as they did in the first half, but there was no danger whatsoever to their goal until the 38th minute - then, after a cross from the left, Brazilian number nine Paulo headed just to put it a bit too wide off the right post. At the end, Flamengo gave up the game a bit, knowing that this would not lead to qualification. Sporting, on the other hand, was given a chance to make it to the finals. Of course, their match against Genk is yet to come.

14. Puskás–Suzuki Cup, Group B

CR Flamengo–Sporting CP (0–2)

Referees: Berényi (Horváth Z., Vörös D.)

Goal: R. Ribeiro (12.), L. Gomes (23.)

Yellow card: Paulo (26.), ill. Junior (26.), Octavio (34.)

Line-ups:

Flamengo: Lucao – Hernandes, Iago, Carbone, Moreira, Paulo, Marquinhos (Rogerio, 30.), Euder, Gondim, Rayan (L. Santos, 46.), Fabrício Yan (Moraes, 59.)

SCP: Diogo Pinto – Travassos, J. Pereira, Marlon Júnior, D. Moreira, Octávio (Carcvalho, 59.), Anjos (Mané, 43., helyette García, 49.), Justo, R. Ribeiro, M. Fernandes (G. Santos, 52.), L. Gomes