After months of unpaid wages, 16 players for Portuguese Liga club
Leiria walked out on the team Friday. That left the last place club
already doomed to relegation with just eight players available for
Sunday's match against Feirense and since the minimum number of
footballers required to play a match is seven, the game was played.
With four players on loan from other clubs (three from Benfica), the
Leiria eight actually held off Feirense for 45 minutes before they
finally scored a goal and went on to beat their undermanned opponents
4-0. It was a noble effort from the Leiria players, who managed to keep
the club from being hit with financial penalties and disciplinary action
by avoiding a forfeited match. Next week, however, whatever Leiria
players are left will have to travel to the Estadio da Luz to play
second-place Benfica and that could get ugly.
PS:
Well, I didn't know for a match to be play, each team must fielded at least 7 players.
For this match, 8 against 11, 4-0 final score is quite decent.
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