By Melody Gross 
B. Ferreira and Santa Clara no longer dream of reaching the sixteenth place in the league standings, which Marítimo occupied, after the Islanders beat Vizela 1-0, on Friday night, in a match held at the Estádio do Marítimo, in Funchal. , which opened the 33rd and penultimate round of the competition. With a goal from Cláudio Winck, on 90 + 5, Marítimo secured the “play-off” against the third-placed team in Liga 2 (Estrela da Amadora or Farense, two-legged, on 3 and 11 June, first game on the continent).
B. Ferreira will still be able to equalize Maritimo on points, however, in the first tiebreaker criterion in the event of equality on points, direct confrontation, the advantage belongs to the Islanders, who won both matches against the “beavers” (3 1 and 1-0) .
The victory and the three points for the hosts, as it was known in advance, would have doomed the Pacenses and the Azoreans to relegation to Liga 2, as the coach of the locals wanted. What is certain is that the team coached by Jose Gomez dominated and had countless chances to score, but without surpassing Luis Felipe, the goalkeeper who was chosen by Manuel Tuliba for the first time in the league, instead of the usual Montenegrin Bontic. Starting with Minho’s team.
A field more harmonious than any other, with Vizela dividing the game, but with simple runs, through the flanks and header game, aligned in a true ode to attacking waste: Rashid even forced Al Jazira’s goalkeeper, Marcelo Carey, to shine (7′), before he Luiz Felipe is doubly tested by Vítor Costa (12′, here defending against the post, and then, with another save, at 13′).
Kiko Bondoso returned to check Marcelo Carré (24 minutes) and Djenny Katamo – the Mozambican loaned from Sporting to Maritimo – did not have the best goal either (41 minutes), with Thomas Silva, in Vesel, showing back traction (cutting off Andre’s shot) Vidigal, in the minute 37) And ahead, with a shot that was only solved by Felix Correa’s intervention, without returning to the visitors’ favor in the first half (43).
One of his two best goalscoring opportunities came early in the second half (47 minutes), with Andre Vidigal not believing he was isolated, and only Luis Felipe ahead of him… and he shot the number. In an open match, without defensive corsets, Kiko Bondoso also did not have a sharp goal in the 52nd minute, as did Bruno Zadas, in a free kick into the first net (65) after the VAR warned the referee, Artur Soares Dias. Anderson’s foul on Jenny Katamo was out of the area…
The other great occasion that made the Maritimesta stands soar was in the 66th minute, when André Vidigal crossed from low into the penalty area and Félix Correa fired home first: with Luiz Felipe winning with a quick shot and no reaction, the ball hit the post and exited the backline.
Since then, we have played more with the heart than with the head, although passion prevailed until the last whistle by Soares Dias … which only came after Claudio Winck, at 90 + 5, in dramatic and epic, made the party explode in Funchal, By scoring 1-0 when few would have expected it.
Remember below all the facts of the match in which Marítimo managed, from now on, to settle the final sixteenth place in the final league classification: