Liga Sagres wrap: Porto extend lead, Uniao on the march

Porto restored their eight-point lead in the Liga Sagres with a 3-0 win away to Pacos de Ferreira on Sunday, but hapless Naval lost again.

The signs were ominous for Pacos when Argentina defender Nicolas Otamendi opened the scoring for Porto 11 minutes in, but a flood of goals never arrived at Estadio da Mata Real.

The hosts, 12th in the league with just one win in their last five, kept the runaway leaders out for a further 79 minutes, before they finally gave away a penalty, scored by Brazilian striker Hulk in the 90th minute.

Walter added a third shortly afterwards, but the scoreline did not do justice to Pacos’ dogged performance.

Uniao de Leiria piled further misery on Naval de Maio with a 3-0 win away to the league’s bottom club.

The visitors took just 15 minutes to breach the Naval defence, with Carlao striking from the penalty spot.

Uniao went down to 10 men with the dismissal of Paulo Vinicius in the 51st minute, but Naval were unable to take advantage and China’s Chengdong Zhang put the visitors further ahead on 64 minutes.

Diogo Amado rounded off the scoring with a goal in the 90th minute.

Uniao climb to third in the table, six points behind second-place Sporting Lisbon, while Naval remain rock bottom, eight points from safety.

Second-bottom Portimonense came away from Maritimo with a 1-1 draw despite finishing with 10 men after a last-minute own goal from Rafael Miranda.

Maritimo had taken the lead through Tcho in the 66th minute before the visitors lost Jumisse to a second yellow card with 12 minutes to go.

But the intervention of the unfortunate Miranda late on meant the spoils were shared.

Nacional missed the chance to climb to fourth after drawing 0-0 away to Olhanense.