Boavista cemented his status this Monday by beating bottom-placed Desportivo de Chaves a emphatic 4-1 at home in the final match of the fifth round of the I League, retaining joint lead.
In the Estádio do Bessa, in Porto, the ‘panthers’ got off to a good start with goals from Tiago Morais (39 seconds), Salvador Agra (five minutes) and the Slovak Róbert Bozeník (11 and 23), while the Brazilian Paulo Víctor de ball reduced. the score for the visitors (71).
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I Liga (#5) | Boavista 4-1 Disp. Keys#LigaPortugalBetclic #BFCGDC https://t.co/o7JinMuUR8 pic.twitter.com/L0iLwPqLLM– VSPORTS (@vsports_pt) September 18, 2023
Boavista, who live on unpaid salaries and were prevented by FIFA from signing new players during the closed season, secured 13 points from Sporting and FC Porto and stood out among the trio of championship leaders for having the best goal difference.
Also in the fifth round, the ‘chess players’ equaled the best start in their history, adding four wins and a draw, just like in 1995/96, in a trajectory opposite to that of Desportivo de Chaves, which had never started an edition of the competition before. the league with five consecutive defeats and remains the only team without any points achieved in 2023/24.
If Petit only brought Bruno Onyemaechi back into the starting line-up due to the success at Estoril (2-1), José Gomes replaced six units in the ‘eleven’ of the home defeat of the flavienses against Moreirense (1-2), through starters Habib Sylla, Steven Vitória, Sandro Cruz, Ricardo Guima, Paulo Víctor and newcomer Rúben Ribeiro recently returned to national football.
END | Boavista 4-1 Chaves
⚫️ Pantera regains leadership and defeat
⚪️ Chaves still reacted (and the expected goals show that the story could have been different) but things were already settled from 4-0… in the 23rd minute!
Reviews and analysis at https://t.co/QZuwKyufuG#BFCGDC… pic.twitter.com/Kl7b88pJC3– Goal (@_Goalpoint) September 18, 2023
Indifferent to Desportivo de Chaves’ mini-revolution, Boavista needed just 39 seconds to take the lead, with Tiago Morais scoring on the rebound after a half-time ‘shot’ by Róbert Bozeník, saved by Hugo Souza, who was in the starting line-up. origin of this play, when he made an incorrect pass to Miguel Reisinho at the exit of the Trás-os-Montes area.
The ‘Panthers’ set the tone for a ruthless performance and once again had the Slovakian as the protagonist in the fifth minute, when he launched Salvador Agra at speed to make it 2-0, and in the eleventh minute, when he shot acrobatically, after a center on the right from Pedro Malheiro.
A new sign of Flavi’s unrest appeared in the 23rd minute, when Reisinho responded to Steven Vitória’s ball with a header into the area, where Bozeník had space to score twice and celebrate for the fifth time this season, completing the surpassed the previous season’s record.
Boavista Chaves
Róbert Boženík was on his way to 10.0 with only 9 ball contacts, but took his foot off the gas in the second half ⭐️#LigaPortugal #BFCGDC #RatersGonnaRate pic.twitter.com/dy8d9k4rFw
– Goal (@_Goalpoint) September 18, 2023
Desportivo de Chaves fans voiced their discontent with white handkerchiefs and whistles as Rúben Ribeiro tried to narrow the difference in the 35th minute with a shot that bounced off the post, before Kelechi Nwakali and Leandro Sanca came on.
At a time when Pedro Malheiro had already left due to injury, Boavista moderated the pace depending on the conditions and restored attacking momentum already within the added time, with Róbert Bozeník repelling a request from Salvador Agra wide.
José Gomes’ men returned from the dressing room with a greater willingness to attack, harassing and rewarding goalkeeper João Gonçalves through Sanca, in the 55th minute, Héctor Hernández, in the 61st, and Ygor Nogueira, in the 64th perseverance with the goal of ‘ honor ‘ by Paulo Víctor, after a ball lost by Bruno Lourenço, at the age of 71.
Petit took advantage of the running clock to refresh some of the influential elements of the players, who shot just once in the second half and spent more time in deeper areas, after maintaining a three-goal margin with almost consecutive saves from their goalkeeper against the headers. by Jô Batista and João Pedro in the ‘discounts’.
Source: DN
