Rui Borges has no doubt that “the ‘Champions’” of the two-time national football champion “is the championship” of the I Liga and, also for this reason, he will choose “the best team” for the visit to Tondela, this Sunday, October 26th ().
“Our Champions is the championship, and it really is. This is our real ‘Champions’ and we have to enter with a competitive attitude [frente ao Tondela]just as we entered the game against Marseille”, pointed out the coach, in a press conference previewing the ninth round match.
Rui Borges thus gave strength to the statements of Pedro Gonçalves, who on Friday conveyed this idea, in statements to Sporting TV: “I’m happy that the Pote [Pedro Gonçalves] having said that, because I had already said it internally. It’s good to feel that this is their feeling, that they also want to take responsibility for changing the chip, that we really have to win these games.”
In this sense, despite hosting Alverca on Tuesday, in the quarter-finals of the League Cup, around 48 hours after the final whistle, on Sunday, the coach assumed that he will choose “the best team” for the visit to Tondela. “Then, in the game with Alverca, for the League Cup, we will soon see the best eleven. It is certain that we will make a lot of changes. It is impossible for the players, the vast majority of them, to be physically available to play in both games”, said the national champion coach.
Who will not be in any of the meetings, however, is defender Zeno Debast, who was injured on Wednesday, in the victory (2-1) of the green and whites, against Marseille, counting for the Champions League, and “will be out of the team, for sure”, in the “next three games”.
On the contrary, Diomande “gave an answer” against Paços de Ferreira, in the Portuguese Cup, and against the French, in the Champions League, which leaves the coach “super calm”: “He [Diomande] responded in Paços [de Ferreira], [fez] 90 minutes good, he left with cramps before extra time, but he’s fine, [está] available.”
Sporting visits Tondela on Sunday, in a match from the ninth round of the Portuguese Football League starting at 6pm, at the João Cardoso Stadium, in Tondela, and refereed by José Bessa, from the Porto Football Association.
The team led by Rui Borges will seek to match FC Porto, who visit Moreirense on Monday, at the end of the day, and lead the championship with 22 points, but three more than the two-time national champions.
Tondela is second to last, with just five points, but the fact that it has the worst attack in the I League, with just four goals scored, and the third worst defense, with 14 goals conceded, does not rest the Leonine coach. “It is the fourth team that has had the most [de golo] creates, is the second one that fails the most, behind Sporting. A team that is super motivated. [Terem] the worst attack, the [terceira] worst defense, it can be a little misleading. We need to be alert and tuned in for the Tondela game, as we were for Wednesday’s game[withMarseille”warnedRuiBorges[comoMarselha”advertiuRuiBorges
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