A goal in extra time this Friday enabled Sporting to return to triumph in the I Portuguese Football League by beating Vizela 2-1 at home in a 17th round match, the last of the first round.
Pedro Gonçalves gave the Lions the lead in the 59th minute, but American Alex Méndez equalized in the 75th minute and Spaniard Pedro Porro gave Sporting the win with a penalty in the 90+5th minute.
END | Sporting 2-1 Vizela
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Sporting repeated the same initial team that faced Benfica (2-2) in the previous round and proved bogged down in moves, largely thanks to Vizela’s tactical apparatus, with five defenders and three midfielders, playing very close to the line from midfield.
In view of this, Rúben Amorim’s men tried to play in depth, with long passes behind the vizelenses’ defensive line, and after 05 minutes they gave the first sign of danger when Coates knocked out Paulinho, who, isolated from Buntic, shot against the goalkeeper’s face and ended with the ball going over the bottom line.
With a similar recipe, Osmajic, launched by Nuno Moreira, beat Sporting’s central defenders in speed in the 10th minute and against Adan did not have the strength to score the goal and allowed the Spanish goalkeeper to save.
Despite Sporting still having a few chances to reach the goal, Trincão, after 11 and 20 minutes, the truth apathy was the dominant note on the pitch, and also in the stands, which is why the clean sheet fell like a glove. .
In the second half, Sporting brought in Morita for Marcus Edwards and in the 47th minute Pedro Gonçalves tried to reach the goal, but the ball went just over Buntic’s goal.
Gretiger, the ‘lions’ circled the goal of Manuel Tulipa’s oriented team and reached the goal in the 59th minute after a move started on the left by Ugarte, who launched Matheus Reis and put it in front of Pedro Porro, who served Pedro . Goncalves for the 1-0.
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After the arrival of Matheus Pereira and Alex Méndez, who replaced Kiki Afonso and Nuno Moreira respectively, Vizela managed to get back on the ground and started Sporting’s first construction phase.
Interestingly, this duo would equalize in the 75th minute. Matheus Pereira, on the right, crossed Alex Méndez’s header.
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The move would be strongly contested by the Sporting players as, before passing to Matheus Pereira, the ball would hit and ‘entangle’ Porto referee Rui Costa, who felt it was unnecessary to stop play as he was in the was in possession of the outsiders and held, although Ugarte tried to ‘cut’ the ball before hitting it.
Rúben Amorim bet all his chips in the last 20 minutes. He removed Pedro Gonçalves and Ugarte and added reinforcements Matteo Talongo and young striker Chermiti. And then St. I just replaced Nuno Santos, passed Coates and the striker.
Sporting would eventually win the game after a penalty converted by Pedro Porro in the 90+5 minute, which penalized a foul by Igor Julião that hit Paulinho in the head, but was only spotted by the intervention of the VAR under the guidance of the referee from Setubal Bruno Esteves.
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Sporting, who came from two games without a win, remain in fourth place, with 32 points, nine behind league leaders Benfica, five behind Sporting de Braga and four behind FC Porto, teams with one game less, while Vizela follows in place eight, with 21.
Source: DN
