If Benfica are to justify their status as favourites for the 2023-24 Primeira Liga, they will have to do what no team has done in the last six years in Portugal – retain their championship title.
When the Eagles won the league for a fourth successive time in 2016-17, it appeared the country’s most popular club had definitively wrested dominance of the local football landscape from arch-rivals Porto, shattering decades of hegemony by the Dragons. But since then the title
