Sporting de Portugal won this Monday’s classic match against Porto, playing ten from the 51st minute thanks to the dismissal of Pepe, spurred by a tremendous display from Swede Viktor Gyökeres, thereby restoring the Portuguese lead Premier League
Hot atmosphere inside and outside the stadium – with injuries after a clash between fans and police before the match -, expulsions, disallowed goals and an entertaining show: this is the classic between Sporting and Porto on the 14th day of the Portuguese championship.
Gyökeres opened the scoring
The match started in the best way for Sporting, who in the 11th minute found the Swede Achieved by Viktor Gyökeres the first goal.
The ‘lions’ top scorer received a long pass in the area, battled hard with Pepe and shot to beat. Diogo Costa and promote himself.
It wasn’t an easy first half for the former Real Madrid player, who had a lot of trouble stopping the Nordic forward.
As the green and white picked up the pace on the counterattack, Porto controlled possession, but even with the ball at their feet more often, it was difficult for them to get close to the Spanish goal. Antonio Adam.
Much credit to the very young trio of Sporting centre-backs, Diomande (20 years old), Inácio (22) and youth player Eduardo Quaresma (21), who entered the eleven after the Uruguayan was injured in the last minute Sebastian Coates and he is one of the heroes of the game.
Quaresma even contributed to a goal by stealing the ball from Galeno and crossing for Gyökeres to head home, but it was nullified due to a foul by the rookie defenseman, who became excited after too much.
Just before half-time, Porto had their first big chance, but Adan used his experience and Wenderson Galeno denied the goal.
Pepe is losing
Pepe’s night did not improve after the match resumed. In the 51st minute, the 40-year-old Portuguese-Brazilian veteran center back hit Matheus Reis with his outstretched arm, resulting in a bleeding face, to cut off an advance on the right.
The Sporting players asked for a second yellow card, but the referee reviewed the pictures and sent off the former Real Madrid player with a straight red card, ironically applauding him as he retired.
sentence by Pedro Gonçalves
The Lisbonites They increased their lead in the 60th through Pedro Gonçalves, who received a gift from Gyökeres to achieve the second.
A deep pass from Mozambican Geny Catamo – another of the gems of the Sporting youth team – found the Swede, who ran towards the goal and then assisted Gonçalves, who was alone in front of the goal was all it took send the ball behind the goal. net..
Despite the inferiority of the number, Porto tried to stay alive in the classic. Diogo Costa is good at saves with shots from Marcus Edwards and Gonçalves, while Evanilson threatened, but he couldn’t beat Adam.
The Brazilian striker, the main scorer of the blue and white this season, scored more after a pass from the Iranian Mehdi Taremi, offside at the time of his attendance, so it does not count.
First win against Porto since 2016
Viktor Gyökeres’ pace still created many chances for Sporting to increase their tally, but the result did not change, although it was enough for the ‘lions’ to secure their first league victory against Porto since 2016, to joy of Dolores Aveiro, Cristiano’s mother, who wasin the stands.
Sporting will celebrate Christmas in first position with 34 points, one more than Benfica, who beat Braga 1-0 earlier today. Porto is third with 31, while Braga is fourth with 29.
Source: La Verdad
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