This Saturday, Gil beat Vicente Portimonense 5-0, in a match for the opening round of the 1st Portuguese football league, in which it was more effective in an equal first half and took advantage of Algarve’s defensive weaknesses in the second.
Beginning his fourth season playing for the Barcelos club, Fujimoto disrupted a first half played mainly in midfield, scoring goals in the 9th minute, from a penalty and at 45+5, before the gilistas extended the result with goals from Pedro Tiba, on 58, Tidjany Touré, on 72, and Gabriel Pereira, in the last move, on 90+5.
Provisional leader of the championship, given the three points and the positive balance of five goals, Gil Vicente continued the recent trend of winning the championship at home, registered between the 2019/20 and 2021/22 seasons, in the first game for the match led by coach Vítor Campelos, from Desportivo de Chaves.
With four reinforcements in each of the starting teams, Minho and Algarve circulated the ball late at various points in the first half, but broke that lane twice in the first 10 minutes.
The Blacks and Whites created their most egregious opportunity in the fourth minute, when Sylvester Jasper was isolated in the ‘heart’ of the Gilista area and shot wide, while the ‘Roosters’ took advantage of a penalty the first time they crossed the opposing area entered. minute eight, after Pedrão knocked down Leonardo Buta.
Responsible for converting the penalty kick, Fujimoto fired in the opposite direction to the direction chosen by goalkeeper Vinicius Silvestre and gave Gil Vicente an advantage that he controlled until the break, given the scarcity of shots close to the goals.
The attacking production of the Paulo Sérgio-coached team has since been limited to an acrobatic shot off the side by Rildo Filho in the 22nd minute and another shot by Paulo Estrela at Andrew in the 45th minute.
Gil Vicente in turn threatened to extend the advantage in a shot wide of Roko Baturina, in the 42nd minute, before Fujimoto ‘doubled’ in the finishing move of the first half, with a shot on the edge of the penalty area to counterattack.
Portimonense responded in the opening minutes of the second half, manifesting itself with a shot into the outside side net from Sylvester Jasper, but ‘paid’ for the space given up next to their area with the third goal conceded, in a move in which Pedro Tiba had time to progress, frame the target and shoot the bottom left corner.
In the last half hour, the Barcelos team became ‘masters’ of the game and extended their lead in another counter-attack, complemented by reinforcement Tidjany Touré, who came on in the 66th minute to replace Marlon Douglas.
Gil Vicente sealed the result in the final move of the game, with Gabriel Pereira deflecting the ‘mouth’ off the goal after a corner kick, canceled for offside before referee Cláudio Pereira consulted the video referee and reversed the decision.
Source: DN
