After 50 minutes of play, Bernardo Fontes, Tondela’s goalkeeper, had already broken the record for saves in a championship game this season, with 11 interventions. An example of Sporting’s dominance in the 9th round of the I Liga, which they won 3-0, with goals from Suárez, Pote and Quenda.
This Sunday, October 26th, in Gonçalo Inácio’s 150th game with a lion on his chest, Rui Borges’ team continued the good game they achieved in the Champions League, against Marseille, with offensive football and plays for an artistic note, against a Tondela without intensity and without being able to stop the creativity of the Leonine team.
Luis Suárez was in the starting lineup and once again proved right to the Leonine coach, who, the day before, had rejected the goalscorer’s “bad form”. The Colombian scored for the fifth game in a row and reached seven goals in the I Liga. A move in the 18th minute in which he dribbled past three defenders and found space to finish with his left foot.
Pedro Gonçalves (Pote) also scored again (at 59′) and reached seven goals this season, surpassing last season’s record, in which he scored just six. Furthermore, Pote reached 54 assists and surpassed Pedro Barbosa as the player with the most assists for Sporting in the last 30.
The Lions’ third goal came towards the end of the match, at 90’+2′ and resulted from a run by Alisson from the left, with Matheus making the cross for Quenda to deflect into the goal and beat the Tondela goalkeeper, who still ended the game with 12 saves.
Sporting remains 100% victorious away from home in this championship. Next up is Alverca, tomorrow, for the League Cup.
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