Desportivo de Chaves won this Saturday for the first time in Sporting history, 2-0, with two goals in three minutes, in a fourth round match of the Portuguese I League.
Steven Vitória and Juninho gave the victory to the Trás-os-Montes, on the 17th visit to Alvalade, for the I Liga, after 13 defeats and three draws, in a match in which Sporting, booed by the fans after the final whistle of the the referee of Setubal André Narciso.
However, the team led by Rúben Amorim, who added the second consecutive defeat, could have even gone to halftime to score, but luck, fate and misfortune would have prevented the ‘lions’ from beating the keeper. Paulo Victor networks. Especially since the flavienses did not shoot a single shot at Antonio Adán’s goal during that period.
With this result, Sporting, which has two defeats, a draw and a triumph, has the same four points with which it entered this match and is overtaken by Trás-os-Montes, now with seven, the result of two triumphs, one draw and one defeat…
For this match, Rúben Amorim made three changes from the defeat to FC Porto, with Ricardo Esgaio taking the place of the suspended Pedro Porro, Rochinha replaced Morita in midfield and Nuno Santos on the left wing, which sent Matheus Reis relegated to the bench.
With Vitor Campelos putting Guima on the field, instead of the suspended João Teixeira, the flavienses got a big shudder in the fourth minute when Nuno Santos, from outside the area, shot the ball very close to the top left corner with a powerful shot. from goal defended by Paulo Vítor.
Sporting came even stronger, very dynamic in attack thanks to the ‘carousel’ between Rochinha, Marcus Edwards and Francisco Trincão and in the 13th minute the ball went to Pedro Gonçalves, who shot with his left foot and from outside the area . on the left post of Paulo Vítor’s goal, he still hit him in the back and erratically left the field.
The ‘nil’ at halftime severely punished Sporting for wasting seven more goals, with the protagonists Pedro Gonçalves (2), Rochinha (2), Luís Neto (1) and Trincão (2) who did not have the necessary coolness to finish the game. to bring ‘lions’ into the winner’s state.
In the second half, Rúben Amorim put Matheus Reis on the field to replace Luís Neto. In turn, the flavienses made two substitutions: Juninho and Obiora replaced Benny and João Mendes respectively.
Sporting’s attacking glow continued, but Héctor Hernández was very close to opening the score, in the 55th minute, as the Spaniard received the ball from Batxi and came face to face with António Adan in a swift transition, with the goalkeeper ‘ leonine’ was saved for corner.
Sporting and the 31,408 spectators, however, had no idea of the catastrophe that would follow.
Vitor Campelos’ men would open the scoring in the 60th minute via Steven Vitória, with a header at the entrance to the central defender area, after a free kick by Batxi.
The ‘lions’ blamed the touch, became disorganized and allowed a counterattack and Juninho made it 2-0 in the 63rd minute, assisted by Héctor Hernández.
Losing, with no other solutions, Rúben Amorim put on the field the Dutch central St. Juste, replacing Ricardo Esgaio and Coates, started to play as a striker and at the age of 73 he was assisted by Rodrigo Ribeiro who replaced Rochinha.
Sporting tried to make a living until the end, but Desportivo de Chave managed to pull off the line and when they let the Lions score, goalkeeper Paulo Vítor looked to hold the final score at 2-0.
Patrick, 90+4, was sent off for hitting Matheus Reis with his elbow.
The unprecedented triumph of Desportivo de Chaves in Alvalade is also the first home for one of the ‘bigs’, against whom, for the championship: in addition to the three draws on the ‘lion’ field, they had only two on the ‘ eagles’, in 48 games.
Source: El heraldo
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