Today, Thursday, Alvalade Stadium will host the match between Sporting and Benfica, in the first leg of the Portuguese Cup semi-final. A full meeting, which actually forced the police to intervene to control the crowd.

When about an hour remained until the start of the match, after the buses carrying Benfica and Sporting players arrived, clashes were recorded between fans of the two teams, called “casual”, in the Tielheiras area near the stadium. Jose Alvalade Stadium, forcing police to intervene.

According to commissioner Artur Serafeim, the items allocated to Benfica did not follow the “shell” that was heading from Luz to Alvalade. One person was injured as a result of these clashes.

“There was just a small concentration of chaos near the trailers in the Tielheiras area. Some Benfica fans were not accompanied by our security box. There was a concentration of tension there, where there was a more forceful intervention (from the police), because there was a more forceful intervention (from the police), because there was a little concentration of tension there,” Artur Serafeim said. “The fans, both sides wanted to create chaos, and we had to restore order.”

According to this officer, no one has been arrested yet, resulting in one person being injured.

He concluded: “There was a person who needed medical intervention. He was helped on site and it was not necessary to go to the hospital.”

With Lusa