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Surprise in the 28 called up for practice, an even bigger surprise in Sporting’s first public appearance this preseason. Rodrigo Fernandes, a 19-year-old midfielder, a product of Alcochete who promoted Jorge Silas to the main team and who had been training separately in the lions since the arrival of Rúben Amorim, was reborn for 2020/2021.
And the day before yesterday, particularly with Portimonense, we realized why: as in the attack, where in addition to Gonzalo Plata is now Nuno Santos, and just when he asked for the defense, where Feddal arrived to replace Mathieu and Gonçalo Inácio remains. The Sporting coach also wants left-handed midfielders so that the strategy and the mechanisms to implement 3x4x3 work in the best way. And how? With a midfield playing with both feet and inverted positions.
Against Portimonense, the starting midfield had Rodrigo Fernandes on the right and the inevitable Wendel on the left. Then, in the 70th minute, when Rúben Amorim changed the ten outfield players, Matheus Nunes replaced his compatriot and it was Daniel Bragança, another product made in Alcochete, another new face at Sporting 2020/2021, and another … left-handed occupying the space of Rodrigo Fernandes on the right.
That is, change of feet in the midfield, thus allowing greater ease in, in the offensive transition, to vary the game quickly through the wings: the right-handed midfielder, from the left, quickly gets into the right lane, while the midfielder left-handed does the same. to the opposite flank. Against Portimonense, the episodes in which this play was made followed the instructions of Rúben Amorim, so this quick exit was achieved as soon as the team regained possession of the ball.
