Lisbon, Portugal (My Sportsbook) - A pair of 11th-hour goals, including a strike in the 88th minute of play, carried defending Portuguese Superliga champions FC Porto to a 2-1 victory over Nacional on Monday at Estadio Eng. Rui Alves. Bruno Moraes and Lucho Gonzalez both tallied in the final 15 minutes to put a 1-0 defeating score to rest and captured three points to keep the club five points clear in the first-place position on the table. Ze Vitor knocked home the initial blow in the 37th-minute to lead the home squad into the break up a tally. It took visiting Porto 38 minutes to hit the equalizer courtesy of Moraes before Gonzalez's long-range shot solidified the winner with two minutes remaining to bring the leaders to 34 points on the season and further ahead of second-place Sporting Lisbon. With the loss, Nacional falls to .500 ball with a 6-6-1 record so far in the Superliga, heading into Beira-Mar for this weekend's fixture. Porto returns to its home soil for a meeting with 18-point holders Pacos Ferreira in its next match.
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