Portugal

Primeira Liga

Sunday 1st December 2019

Kick Off 17.30 Actual 17.34

Vitoria Futebol Clube Setúbal 1 Vitoria Sport Clube Guimarães 1, attendance 3,648

50’ 0-1

62’ 1-1

@ Estádio do Bonfim

Praca Vitoria Futebol Clube

2901-882

Setúbal

€15 Admission

No Programme.

The train from Lisbon took 52 minutes and cost €9.90 return. On arrival at the station, the ground is no more than ten minutes walk, so we headed there to buy tickets for the match, before heading into the town. There is currently refurbishment going on at the ticket booths, so tickets are being sold from the club office at present, so we were glad to be ahead of the queue as it was snaking back quite a way as kick off approached.

The ground here is very typical of the older Portuguese stadiums, having been built in 1962. It is an all seater oval shape, and as expected, had very little cover, although it remained dry throughout, so not a problem. The only choice of tickets for non Socios were €10 behind the goal, which was with the away fans, or €15 down the side, but at least you could sit where you wanted, so this was what we went for.

The match was 14th versus 6th in the league table. The first half was a very cagey affair, with Setúbal having the better of the early exchanges, then Guimarães coming into it as the game went on. The breakthrough came early in the second half, when an angled left footed shot into the far corner put the visitors ahead, before Setúbal drew level just after the hour mark, when a long ball over the top saw their striker finish a one on one chance past the ‘keeper. Neither side did enough to win it and a draw was probably a fair result.

Even with the match finishing fifteen minutes later than expected, it was an easy stroll back to the station for the 19.58 train back north to Lisbon.