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In the last season, Sporting Lisbon was disappointed in the Champions League and was last in the group stage. The club wants to do better in this season, provided, of course, the Portuguese qualify at all. The Romanian representative Steaua Bucharest is still standing between Sporting and the group stage. The Portuguese are the favorite in these playoffs and want to ensure in the first leg at home for clear conditions.
Sporting (Por) :
The last season was not really successful for Sporting Lisbon. In the national cup, the Taca de Portugal, the club was already out in the quarter-finals, while Ligapokal did not even reach the group stage. In the national championship, Sporting Lisbon finished third behind the city rivals Benfica Lisbon and FC Porto. On Benfica, Sporting had a gap of 12 points, while the club had six points less than Porto. In the Champions League, the prospects in a group with Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Legia Warsaw were pretty badly at the beginning, but they wanted to win at least in the Europa League. In the end, Sporting Lisbon were the last group.
The preparation for the new season was rather mixed for Sporting Lisbon. Although there were narrow victories against Monaco, Fenerbahce Istanbul and Florence, but otherwise clear defeats against Valencia, FC Basel, Marseille and Ligakonkurrent Vitoria Guimaraes. The start to the new season in the national Primeira League, however, has succeeded. Aves and Vitoria Setubal have won two to zero victories. Against the promoter Aves as well as the twelfth of the pre-season Vitoria Setubal were however, however, also more compulsory. With Steaua Bucharest, the first real hardest test of the new season is waiting for the Portuguese.
FCSB (Rou) :
The way to the group stage of the Champions League began already for Steaua Bucharest and FCSB, as the club now calls itself in the last round. Opponent was Viktoria Pilsen from Czech Republic and after the 2: 2 in the first leg at home spoke not too much for the Romanians. However, Steaua Bucharest were able to take the lead in the second half of the season with a 4-1 win, By the 70th minute it had been 1: 1, which would have been enough for the Czechs to continue. But then Steaua beat Bucharest three times within nine minutes and thus secured the finals matches around the group stage. And the Romanians do not see themselves as unimportant, as the previous season was not overly successful, but there is also no defeat in the season so far.
So far, Steaua Bucharest has played eight competitive games in this season, six of them in the national league 1. In addition to three draws, there were three victories. This makes the club four out of fourteen, who lost the championship in the pre-season just because of the lost direct match against FC Viitorul. Even a protest from Steaua Bucharest at the International Court of Sports Court CAS against the championship format in Romania remained unsuccessful. But, in contrast to FC Viitorul, who have already been eliminated in the third qualifying round against APOEL Nikosia, Steaua Bucharest still has the chance to reach the group stage.