Sporting 1 vs 0 Gent

More than a handful victory for the Europa League!

The Beginning of the game began with a special tribute to Armando Garranha (Basketball Player) and Malcolm Allison (Football Coach), to which the minute of silence for all fans showed respect and clapped.

At 6 minutes of starting the game, Diogo Salomão put the ball in the net with a fantastic pass from Helder Postiga. From there was \o/ a goal party and in the half part Sporting was already winning 4-1! Yes, Sporting suffered a ridiculous goal, but let's not criticize it by Hildebrand, Sporting in the second part didn't come with all the claw, but still scored one more goal!

Fantastic atmosphere in Alvalade from the first to the last minute!

Torcida Verde showed that we are in great SPORTING CLUB DE PORTUGAL, accompanied by dozens of banners!

Here's ou Sporting!! 

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SPORTING: Hildebrand, Abel, Evaldo, Carriço, Polga (Torsiglieri, 44 m), André Santos, Maniche (Zapater, 64 m), João Pereira, Diogo Salomão, Postiga e Liedson (Vukcevic, 73 m).
Treinador: Paulo Sérgio
Não utilizados: Tiago, Matías Fernandez, Valdes e Nuno Coelho.

GENT: Jorgacevic, Baric, Skarabot, Hanstveit, Wils, Thijs, Azofeita, Smolders, Ljubijankic, El Ghanassy (Soumahoro, 67 m) e Ibrahima.
Treinador: Franckly Duri
Não utilizados: Bruzzese, Coulibaly, De Smet, Arbeitman, Wallace e Grondin.
Disciplina: cartão amarelo a João Pereira (11 m), Postiga (19 m); Coulibaly (80 m)
Golos: Salomão (6 m), Liedson (13 e 27 m), Maniche (37 m), Postiga (60 m); Wils (16 m).

Sporting 21 x 28 ABC

 Sporting Handball Team was not happy when they lost against ABC Braga for 21 vs 28.

Sporting came up well in the game, scoring and always make a difference, to the opposing team start mark, Sporting became disorganized and without understanding why rarely attacked by the edges.

The result reflected the game and of course the "dismissal" by Paulo Faria.

This was the eighth round of the National Handball Championship and the third defeat of our team. So we are in 7th place in the group followed by Belenenses.

Regarding the presence of the Ultras, Sporting can not complain of lack of support, because although not many fans present, who were no longer support.

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Sporting 5 vs 0 Levski Sofia

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Finally a willingly victory!!
That's the evidence that when the whole team is motivated in no one wins us!
We beat Levski Sofia and José Alvalade Stadium was full, "sorry" all the "supporters" who stayed with her ass at home by choice, and who didn't experience it live!

The only thing that missed was Simon Vuckcevic score a goal, because he deserved indeed!
 

The whole team should be congratulated, i want to highlight Simon Vuckcevic, Anderson Polga and Postiga, who were very good! Not taking credit of Rui Patricio, Maniche, Diogo Solomão, Matias, Andre Santos, basicallyeveryone!

YES IT IS OUR SPORTING! This rout Europe will not forget!

Sporting 1 x 1 Nacional

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Another Miserable Round

                                              

We know that a defeat is worse than a lost, but we're talking about Sporting Clube de Portugal, any game that doesn't give us the victory, is a miserable game.

Bad Luck yes, but it is an extreme evil complicity of bad passes and goals missed.

Certainly for us the Simon Vuckcevic 77 was the player with the greatest motivation of glory, and who made Sporting play on this day.

Some parasites are very surprised by Paulo Sérgio have taken the Liedson, why?! In our eyes it was a wise choice. "Levezinho"(Liedson nickname) was not playing well, was replaced. Makes perfect sense to me.

The highlight of the game was Carlos Saleiro amazing Goal, "CS9 also resolves." or less by this time, tried to solve.

On this match were present more than 23 000 fans. I hope they don´t give up supporting the club.

Match report
Estádio José Alvalade
Referee: Rui Costa (Porto).

SPORTING: Rui Patrício, João Pereira, Carriço (c), Nuno André Coelho, Evaldo, André Santos (Matias Fernandez, 82 m), Yannick Djaló (Carlos Saleiro, 45 m), Zapater, Vukcevic, Postiga and Liedson (Diogo Salomão, 45 m).
Coach: Paulo Sérgio
Unused substitutes: Hildebrand, Torsiglieri, Polga and Abel.
Cards: Yellow, Carlos Saleiro (48 m), Matias Fernandez (84 m) and Vukcevic (90 m).
Goal: Carlos Saleiro (63 m).

NACIONAL: Bracali, Claudemir, Danielson, Felipe Lopes, Nuno Pinto, Luís Alberto, Pecnick (Bruno Amaro, 71m), Thiago Gentil (Anselmo, 64 m), Edgar Costa, Skolnik and Orlando Sá (Mihelic, 64 m).
Coach: Jokanovic.
Unused substitutes: Elisson, Patacas, João Aurélio and Juninho.
Goal: Danielson (80 m).

Sporting 0 v 0 Olhanense

Draw in Alvalade                                          SEE PHOTO GALLERY

With the stadium with more than 25 000 people, it was expected a better result against Olhanense (Algarve)
Sporting could have won more 3 more important points and stay in second place in the Championship, but only won 1 Point, keeping then in 3rd place in the Portuguese league table.

Again i don´t understand why does Sporting fail so many passes and where is Diogo Solomão?  Liedson no longer resolves, Carlos Saleiro made a pass to goalkeeper in a clear chance on goal.

I hope the new Sporting's goalkeeper is better than  Rui Patricio defending corners.
 

I urge all who came to see the Sporting in the stadium, but numbers is only for statistics. Can you imagine at least 10 000 people (less than half of the stadium) singing all together SPORTING!? It would be something else :)

Liga Zon Sagres – matchday four
11-09-2010
Estádio José Alvalade
Referee: André Gralha (Santarém)
Assistant referees: Valter Oliveira and Bruno Silva
4th official: Hugo Miguel
Half time result: 0-0
SPORTING - Rui Patrício; João Pereira, Carriço, Nuno André Coelho (Hélder Postiga, 83 m), Evaldo, André Santos, Valdés, Matias Fernandez (Vukcevic, 64 m), Maniche, Yannick Djaló (Saleiro, 64 m) and Liedson.
Coach: Paulo Sérgio.
Unused substitutes: Tiago, Torsiglieri, Zapater and Diogo Salomão.
Olhanense - Moretto, João Gonçalves, Maurício, Jardel, Carlos Fernandes, Delson (Lulinha, 49 m), Vinícius, Jorge Gonçalves (Mexer, 84 m), Nuno Piloto, Paulo Sérgio and Yontcha (Adilson, 77 m).
Coach: Daúto Faquirá.
Unused substitutes: Ricardo Batista, Ismaily, Toy and Djalmir.
Cards: Yellow, Daniel Carriço (11 m), Moretto (51 m), Yontcha (60 m), Lulinha (72 m) and João Pereira (78 m).

Sporting 1 x 0 Maritimo

Sporting 1 x 0 Maritimo

Goal by Matias Fernandez

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2nd Round Portuguese League

Sporting 0 x 2 Brondby

A game of many mistakes and badluck!                                           PICTURE GALLERY

Sporting faced Dennemark's Team Brondby on the 19th of August in Alvalade Stadium, for Europe League Plays-Off.

A game that turned out to be unhappy, and even unfair. The misfortune is that we refer to three balls at the bar / post and mistakes were made barely passing and shooting into the air.
In our view, Brondby didn't played better than Sporting, but was more happy in finalization and aso played with more intelligence on the technique. 

Brondby was winning by 0-1 at halftime and made a substitution, Sporting lose but still didn't change the strategy, Yannick Vuck were the "reinforcements" for the second half but even so, Maniche play alone? is hard!

Another mistake was that fucker of the referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (of Austria!)

We dont like to hear the whistles in the stands unconscionable, after all are not like the fucking Lamps! Postiga went out and fans whistled, why!?

All together we only have a role during the 90 minutes, CALL FOR SUPPORT AND TEAM! Well at least this is our opinion! Of course we were too upset to be losing, but dont you think that instead of whistling when the opponent scores a goal, we would sing even higher for the spiritual strength of the players was not another? (They donot deserve? Is it, but deserves the SCP, if they say on TV what we want to hear even though in reality they are cagarem is upon us, because we do not sing for them? Even if it is all a big crap we want is that the Sporting win!) and also do not think before the other fans we were not well regarded?

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GO SPORTING

Sporting, 0-Brondby, 2
Europa League Play-off – 1st leg
2010-08-19 – Estádio José Alvalade
Referee: Robert Schörgenhofer (Austria)
Assistant referees: Mário Strudl and Johannes Koenig
Halftime result: 0-1
Sporting: Rui Patrício, João Pereira, Nuno André Coelho, Carriço, Evaldo, Matias (Vukcevic, 55 m), André Santos, Maniche, Valdes (Saleiro, 75 m), Postiga (Yannick, 62 m) and Liedson.
Unused substitutes: Tiago, Polga, Pongolle and Zapater.
Coach: Paulo Sérgio
Brondby: Andersen, Wass, Bischoff, Von Schlebrugge, Rasmussen, Jensen, Nilsson (Randrup, 71 m), Kristiansen (Farnerud, 88 m), Larsen, Khron-Dheli, Jallow (Peter Madsen, 73 m).
Unused substitutes: Tornes, Van der Schaaf, Frederiksen and Bruno Batata.
Coach: Henrik Jensen
Cards: Yellow, João Pereira (46 m), Carriço (90+2 m); Jensen (62 m)
Goals: Jan Kristiansen (43 m), Jallow (52 m).

Apresentation Match v Lyon

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On the day of presentation of the new season to the fans, Sporting won the French Champion , Olympique de Lyon!

A game that moralize Sporting, with a goal from Tonel and Yannick Djalo!

It is also noteworthy that Nelson Mandela turned 92 years that day! So Congratz! Sporting made his homenage of course as he's our partner No. 31 118

CONGRATULATIONS SPORTING!

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SPORTING

 
Victor Golas (Tiago, 30m) (Rui Patrício, 60); Abel (João Pereira, 45m), Tonel (Nuno André Coelho, 45m), Torsiglieri (Polga, 45m) e Grimi (Evaldo, 45m); Pedro Mendes (André Santos, 45m), Maniche (André Martins, 83 m) e Miguel Veloso (Matias Fernandes, 30m) (Hélder Postiga, 60 m); Jaime Valdes (Yannick Djaló, 35 m), Sinama-Pongolle (Carlos Saleiro, 45 m) (Liedson, 86 m) e Vukcevic (Diogo Salomão, 60m). Disciplina: nada a assinalar. Golos: Tonel (2) e Yannick (71m)

OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS

 
Vercoutre; Abenzouar, Boumsong (Said Mehamah, 65 m), Lovren e Cissokho (Samuel Umtiti, 79m); Pjanic (Jeremy Pied, 65m), Gonalons (Puel, 74 m) e Ederson (Rachid Ghezzal, 74 m) César Delgado (Nicolas Seguin, 65m) Gomis (Kim Kallstrom, 45 m) (Beraldo, 90m)e Jimmy Briand. Treinador: Claude Puel. Disciplina: nada a assinalar.

League Table 2010/11 :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

 

Round	Date	Time	Match	Result	+info	Gallery	Videos
1	15-08-2010	00h00	Paços de Ferreira -  Sporting	0-1	N/A	N/A	N/A
2	22-08-2010	00h00	Sporting - Maritimo	1-0	Yes	Yes	-
3	29-08-2010	00h00	Naval - Sporting	1-3	N/A	N/A	N/A
4	11-09-2010	19:15	Sporting - Olhanense	0-0	Yes	Yes	Yes
5	19-09-2010	20:15	Benfica - Sporting	2-0	Yes	Yes	Yes
6	26-09-2010	19:15	Sporting - Nacional	1-1	Yes	Yes	Yes
7	03-10-2010	00h00	Beira-Mar - Sporting	-	-	-	-
8	24-10-2010	00h00	Sporting - Rio Ave	-	-	-	-
9	31-10-2010	00h00	Leiria - Sporting	-	-	-	-
10	07-11-2010	00h00	Sporting - V. Guimarães	-	-	-	-
11	14-11-2010	0h00	Académica - Sporting	-	-	-	-
12	28-11-2010	00h00	Sporting - Porto	-	-	-	-
13	05-12-2010	00h00	Portimonense - Sporting	-	-	-	-
14	19-12-2010	00h00	V. Setúbal - Sporting	-	-	-	-
15	09-01-2011	00h00	Sporting - Braga	-	-	-	-
16	16-01-2011	00h00	Sporting - P. Ferreira	-	-	-	-
17	23-01-2011	00h00	Marítimo - Sporting	-	-	-	-
18	06-02-2011	00h00	Sporting - Naval	-	-	-	-
19	13-02-2011	00h00	Olhanense - Sporting	-	-	-	-
20	20-02-2011	00h00	Sporting - Benfica	-	-	-	-
21	27-02-2011	00h00	Nacional - Sporting	-	-	-	-
22	06-03-2011	00h00	Sporting - Beira-Mar	-	-	-	-
23	13-03-2011	00h00	Rio Ave - Sporting	-	-	-	-
24	20-03-2011	00h00	Sporting - Leiria	-	-	-	-
25	03-04-2011	00h00	V. Guimarães - Sporting	-	-	-	-
26	10-04-2011	00h00	Sporting - Académica	-	-	-	-
27	17-04-2011	00h00	Porto - Sporting	-	-	-	-
28	01-05-2011	00h00	Sporting - Portimonense	-	-	-	-
29	08-05-2011	00h00	Sporting - V. Setúbal	-	-	-	-
30	15-05-2011	00h00	Braga - Sporting	-	-	-	-
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			Last Update at 9 July 2010

Apresentation and Anniversary

Congratz Sporting for the 104th Birthday of glory!!

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Handball Final Cup

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Handball weekend in Tavira

On a visit to the Algarve, we were hoping to bring another cup for our club but Sporting surprised us.

Saturday June 26th, Tavira's Pavillion at 5pm.

Sporting started losing against St. Bernard 5-1 ... a bit of disappointment for those who went to Tavira to see our Sporting! Still have not lost hope and we knew we'd be in the range advantage and that's it was just lack of concentration or overconfidence of players.

End of game, Sporting won St. Bernardo and is well calculated for the Cup Final in Portugal.

RESULT: St. Bernard 19 x 27 Sporting

Sunday June 27th, Tavira's Pavillion 5pm

Handball Final Cup in Portugal "x Sporting Xico Andebol."
Errm.. we still don't believe we lost the Cup ...

RESULT: Xico Handball 27 x 24 Sporting
 

Sporting 4 x 3 Benfica

Sporting 4 x 3 S. L. Shit

PICTURE GALLEY

Another victory over the lamps* in a game that undoubtedly belonged to the Lions!

Sporting was wining that fuckers for 4-0, when suddenly after Sporting distraction, Benfica took advantage of the confidence of our players, and made three goals.

This game is part of five series games to give the title of Five a Side Championship.

Our congratulations to João Benedito for the  fantastics defenses!

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*The Lamps (The way we call Benfica Fans)

Sporting 4 x 3 IDJV

We're in the Final!

Sporting won on Saturday, Institute D João V, in Play-Off, 4-3!

In this game there was some unhappiness for Sporting, with at least four balls went to the bar / poles of  IDJV's Goalkeeper!"

At the end of the game the result was tied at 3-3, so they had to go to extra time where the Sporting assured place in the Cup Final, which will compete against the SillyShit Chickens! :D

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STATEMENT GAME
Location: Pavilion Paz e Amizade (Loures)
Referees: Helder Pinto and Rui Carmo (Algarve)
June 5, 2010

Sporting: Benedito, Caio Japa, Divanei, Alex, Cardinal (1), Cristiano, Evandro, João Matos, Djo, Deo (2), Divanei e Café (1).
IDJV: André Sousa, Daniel Silva, Miguel Silva, João Castro (1), Fábio Aguiar (1), Cláudio Calixto, Pascal Pimentel, Ciro Costa, Rui Peixoto, Rodrigo Lourenço, Vítor Batalha e Wellington Medeiro (1).

European Champions!!!!

Sporting became the European Champion of Handball, last Saturday May 29th 2010, beating the MMTS Kwindzyn (Poland) for 27-26!

In the first half Sporting enter very strong, with great goals and also an advantage of 8 to Sporting!

The second half was more balanced, but our guardian, Humberto Gomes, was inspired! Certainly,
all the fans were singing and scream for the team, the Pavillion Benches trembled with such an enthusiasm, after all "WITH EVERYBODY SINGING, SPORTING WILL WIN". 


Our team makes history as being the first Portuguese team to win the Challenge Cup!
CONGRATULATIONS!

The party was made in the way of Almada to Lisbon, where honking and singing, a small lunch at McDondals and then we went climbing the Marquês de Pombal!

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Sporting 27 x 23 Benfica

Take it Pigs! You cant take anything from here!

Sporting won the fucking lamps by 27-22, yesterday 18th May 2010 in Casal Vistoso Pavilion, Lisbon.
The first part of the Derby was hum... yeah it was balanced, but the Lions proved their race, and were the best in the field. :) of course.
Congratulations to our goalkeeper, Ricardo Dias, for the fantastic defenses that put is in euphoria, and the also to the coach Paulo Faria, by the management of theteam, which also gave the opportunity to five juniors playing on this game!

Now The Challenge Cup Final on 23th May in Poland against MMTS Kwidzyn! Go Boys!

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Game Sheet:
Humberto Gomes, Pedro Portela (5), Bruno Moreira, Bosko Bjelanovic (8), Vladimir Petric (2), Ricardo Dias (3), Pedro JJ (2), João Pinto II, Pedro Sequeira, Ricardo Correia, Pedro Jorge (1 ) Hugo Rocha, Fernando Nunes and Fábio Magalhães (6).

Leixoes 2 x 1 Sporting

SPORTING faced Leixões last Saturday in the stadium of Mar in Matosinhos, the Lions won the last league match by 1-2 goals
 by Miguel Veloso and Pedro Silva.

Unhappiness in our visit to Matosinhos, as the Torcida Verde's coach had a malfunction in the turbo at 132 mile south / north of the high way A1.
Torcida's presence was ensured by the the groups of Invicta and Sao Joao da Madeira.

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Match Report:

Liga Sagres - Matchday 30
2010-05-08
Estádio do Mar, em Matosinhos
Referee: Elmano Santos (Madeira)
Assistant referees: Celso Pereira and José Oliveira.
4th official: Humberto Teixeira
Halftime result: 0-1

LEIXÕES - Berger; Jean Sony, Fernando Alexandre, Joel, Antunes (João Paulo, 45 m), Cauê, Seabra (Bruno Gallo, 63 m), Hugo Morais, Fábio Espinho, Pouga and Braga (Zé Manel, 45 m).
Coach: Castro Santos.
Unused substitutes: Fonseca, Nelson, Paulo Tavares and Tiago Cintra.
SPORTING - Rui Patrício; Abel, Tonel, Polga, Grimi, Miguel Veloso, Pedro Silva (Bruno Pereirinha, 62 m), João Moutinho, Matias Fernandez (Renato Neto, 90 m), Yannick Djaló and Hélder Postiga (Carlos Saleiro, 82 m).
Caneira, 90 m).
Unused substitutes: Ricardo Batista, Caneira, Mexer and Luís Almeida.
Coach: Carlos Carvalhal.
Cards: Yellow, Grimi (6 m), Braga (23 m), Seabra (47 m), Pedro Silva (60 m), Yannick Djaló (90+1 m) and Miguel Veloso (90+2 m).
Goals: Miguel Veloso (16 m), Pedro Silva (55 m) and João Paulo (82 m).

Sporting 0 x 1 Naval

Pff... 

The last home game and Sporting lose ...
Why?! Player's Demotivation? Who can explain this? We could, but not sure if we want to...
(...)

Sporting lost 0-1 against a team of Augusto Inacio, Naval 1 º de Maio.
A game tribute to João Morais. "Only those who died is forgotten"

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Sporting 24 x 28 Belenenses

Sporting lost against Belenenses's Handball formation, on last April 28th by 24x28.
The second part of the game of 4th Round of the National Championship Handball didn't
go very well for Sporting, so we didn't approached the leadership of the Championship.
Sad but fair Result in a night of homenage to Sporting Football player: João Morais.

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Challange Cup

Sporting faced last Saturday April 24th 19 hours the Slovakia team: RD Slovan.
The game was reconciled and well competed but it was our great Sporting the best team in the field, a result with a major advantage is what was desired but still Sporting takes five goal's advantage to Slovenia.

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Result: SPORTING 28 X 23 RD SLOVAN

1/2 Final Challange Cup 

Casal Vistoso Pavillion - Lisbon, Portugal.

Challenge Cup – semi final (1st leg)
2010-04-24
Casal Vistoso Pavilion, Lisbon.
Referees: Yoram Peretz anf Shlomo Cohen (Israel)
Result at halftime: 9-9
SPORTING - Humberto Gomes; Bosko Bjelanovic (1) , Vladimir Petric (4), Pedro Solha (7), Mitja Lesjak (1), João Pinto (2, 1 de sete metros) and Fábio Magalhães (4). Used substitutes: Carlos Galambas (1), Pedro Portela (3), Pedro Seabra (5, 1 from 7 metres) and Hugo Rocha.
Coach: Paulo Faria.
Unused substitutes: Ricardo Correia; João Pinto II and Ricardo Dias.

RD SLOVAN - Jure Vran; Branimir Koloper (2), Marko Ristic (4), Matevz Cemas (6), Janez Skusek (2, 1 from 7 metres), Peter Hrvatin and Ales Smejc (1).
Used substitutes: Boris Becirovic (2), Peter Bozic (4, 2 from 7 metres), Igor Vujic (1) and Uros Bundalo (1).
Coach: Radivoje Stanic.
Unused substitutes: Gregor Zupic.

Sporting 2 x 1 V. Setubal

FINALLY POSTIGA!!

The game of the 27th round of the Portuguese League marked Sporting with important events.

Sporting began to lose against the team of Manuel Fernandes (Sporting old fantastic player) 1-0 but Sporting managed to

get around with a goal from Joao Moutinho and...Helder Postiga!! YES! Postiga did it!

The fans had hoped for this goal for longtime as is the first goal of Postiga this season so it was celebrated

with even more euphoria!

This victory doesn't mean only more three points in the league but it also means a place in the UEFA League Europe!

I know we are used to go to UEFA champions League and UEFA Europe League, but as this season havent been so great for Sporting,

we are glad that unless we are going to the Europe League.

This match was also makerd for the Police Raid... they enter in the fanatic groups houses and identify everybody, they're

looking for ilegal stuffs and drugs.

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Game Sheet

Date: April 19, 2010

Local: Estadio Jose Alvalade

Referee: Jorge Sousa

Assistant Referees: José Ramalho and Jose Luis Melo

Result at half-time: 0-1.

Sporting: Rui Patricio, Joao Pereira, Tonel, Carriço, Miguel Veloso, Pedro Mendes, Izmailov (Grimmi, 88 m),

Moutinho, Yannick (Matias Fernandez, 45 m), Saleiro (Postiga, 64 m) and Liedson.

Coach: Carlos Carvalhal

Not used: Polga, Adrien and Pereirinha.

Discipline: Yellow cards: Matias Fernandez (47 m).

Goals: Moutinho (59 m, gp), Postiga (69 m).

Vit. Setubal: Nuno Santos, Collin (Paul Regula, 82 m), André Pinto, Ricardo Silva, Ruben Lima (Rui Fonte, 75 m),

Sandro, Ney, Djikiné, Neca (Kazmierczak, 84 m), Helder Barbosa and Henrique.

Coach: Manuel Fernandes.

Not used: Matos, Bruno Ribeiro, Luis Carlos.

Discipline: Yellow cards: Collin (59 m)

Goal: Collin (11 m)

Five a Side: Sporting 5 x 3 Belenenses

Match report

Futsal National Championship - Matchday 24
2010-04-18
Paz e Amizade Pavilion, Loures.
Referees: Francisco Parrinha and Paulo Teixeira (Lisboa)
Halftime result: 1-3

Sporting - João Benedito; Caio Japa, Djô, Divanei and Café; Used substitutes: Cardinal, Evandro, João Matos, Deo and Diogo Santos.
Unused substitutes: Cristiano and Ré.
Coach: Paulo Fernandes.

Belenenses - Marcão; Marcelinho, Pedro Cary, Paulinho and Jardel. Used substitutes: Paulo Henrique, Diego Sol, Côco, Sidney and Bibi.
Unused substitutes: Fuska.
Coach: Alípio Matos.

Cards: Yellow, Diego Sol (12 m) Cardinal (12 m), João Benedito (14 m), Sidney (27 m), Jardel (33 m). Red, Marcão (31 m).
Goals: Divanei (3 and 31 m), Jardel (4 and 17 m), Marcelinho (18 m), Diogo Santos (31 m), Deo (34 m) and Caio Japa (37 m).

Text: Sandro Baguinho
Photos: Pedro Cruz
Translation: Michael B. Risley

S. L Merda 2 x 0 SPORTING

Costinha: ‘I demand respect for Sporting’

Speaking from the press room at Estádio da Luz, Sporting’s director of football was on hand to give a few words, while also stating that no other Sporting figure would be talking: “My first words are for the Sporting fans that were here, who supported the team to the fullest right until the end of the game. Other than that, I ask whoever watches this game to pay attention to the tackle from Luisão two minutes into the second half and to compare it with that of Marat Izmailov last week and that of João Pereira in the Sporting-Benfica League Cup game. Rules should always be the same for every team. Sporting Clube de Portugal is a great institution and I demand respect for the Club.”



Carlos Carvalhal: ‘An obvious red card’
The Sporting coach took a moment to analyse the game with Benfica, stating that “the first half was dominated by Sporting, with us controlling the game and having the better opportunities. In the second half, the opposite happened and there effectiveness was decisive. We didn’t finish things when we could have but Benfica did. We have some good chances against a good team, we are on the right track and we played some good football that I am happy with. I don’t like to talk about referees, but we cannot close out eyes to what is happening in Portuguese football: It is easy to send of a Sporting player, but today we saw that it is not like that for everybody. Two minutes into the second half, Luisão could have been shown what was an obvious red card, that has to be said!”

Carvalhal finished off by leaving a “word for the fans that were with us cheering us on during the game. They were very enthusiastic and we thank them for that”.



João Moutinho: ‘Luisão and Izmailov tackles are comparable’

The Sporting captain gave a few words following the clash at the Luz, stating that “in the play in which Luisão went through the back of Liedson when play was stopped, he said he slipped. However, we all saw what happened and Izmailov was sent off for a challenge less serious than that. The two tackles are comparable. Today sums it all up: fouls on Sporting players are not given whereas any touch by a Sporting player is given. It looked as if the pitch was on a hill that the referee was always pushing us down. After that, Benfica grabbed the win. This season has to be seen as a sad one for all of us, but we have to live with that and work to make the future better.”

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