As if more evidence was needed of Rodrigo Mora’s star quality, the 17-year-old Porto star scored two more superb individual goals to propel the Dragons to a 2-1 victory over Famalicão this afternoon.

Pedro Bondo pulled one back for the visitors to make it a nervous ending for the home team but Porto held on despite a late red card for Gonçalo Borges to leapfrog Braga into third place in the standings. 

Mora has now scored five goals in his last five games and two weeks before his 18th birthday he has definitively become Porto’s most prized asset.

With five matches remaining of the 2024/25 Primeira Liga, it would take a brave person to predict who will come out victors in a titanic battle between Lisbon rivals Sporting and Benfica, which has entailed twists and turns aplenty. 

The two sides are level on points at the summit of the table. PortuGOAL looks at all the indicators that may influence the outcome. 

The stakes will be high when Boavista travel south to take on Farense at the Estádio de São Luís this week. The Friday afternoon kickoff pits the two teams at the bottom of the Primeira Liga table against each other in an all-important six-pointer that will seriously affect the relegation battle. Both clubs know that anything less than three points will leave them hanging by a thread, possibly ending their chances of survival (at least for Boavista). 

Farense are currently in 17th in the standings, two points below the relegation playoff position. Meanwhile, Boavista, who have managed just three points from their previous five matches, are rooted at the bottom of the table, trailing Farense by three points. There is, however, some hope for both these clubs with AVS, Estrela Amadora and Gil Vicente all struggling to secure points over the last couple of months. With just five games remaining in the campaign, this fixture is sure to produce some nail-biting moments for both sets of supporters, and some thrilling action for the neutrals.

In their 13 Liga Portugal fixtures contested in 2025, Sporting Clube de Braga have only surrendered points in three. In that time they have beaten Benfica at the Estádio da Luz and FC Porto at the picturesque Pedreira and held Sporting at Alvalade.

The return of loanee Uroš Račić has helped balance Braga’s midfield. The towering box-to-box brute provides that equilibrium between attacking threat and defensive solidity. Braga have kept clean sheets in five of the nine matches Račić has featured in (resulting in Braga matching the second-best defence in the league for the entire campaign), while his four goal contributions in his last three appearances have had direct impact on final results, cementing Braga in third place, ahead of Porto.

After a lacklustre loan stint at West Bromwich Albion during the latter stages of 2024, Uroš Račić has resurrected his career and becomes the latest PortuGOAL Figure of the Week. Kevin Fernandes reports.