After the end of the stage of Bruno Lage as coach of Benfica, waiting for the top of the Lisbon club to choose a new coach who has taken over the team at the interim level is Nelson Verissimo, until now second of Lage. Lage spent several hours on Tuesday at Benfica headquarters trying to reach an agreement with the club for the termination of his contract. Mauricio Pochettino is the coach that the Da Luz club would like. Marco Silva and Jorge Jesus, other options.
For the moment and except for surprise, the one who will sit on the bench on Saturday against Boavista is Nelson Verissimo. Two losses in a row, which placed him 6 points behind the leader Porto, have meant the end of Lage's stage.
After falling on Monday to the Maritime, Lage made his position available and today the management of Benfica informed the Portuguese Securities Market Commission that he was negotiating the coach's immediate departure. On August 1, Benfica will play the Portuguese Cup final against Porto.