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I’m not sure what to call it. Estrelinha may not acknowledge that, at a time when Sporting were having one of the worst performances of the season, Rúben Amorim moved on and improved the team. Perhaps it is not wanting to see that the coach of the lions, even without changing the system by a millimeter, escaped the obvious, sending Gonçalo Inácio, a central defender, to rest, because they had to attack more, paradoxically. Or Daniel Bragança when it was necessary to have more ball, invent spaces at a time when everyone seemed closed.
But maybe there is something supernatural, yes, not every day a central defender appears at the entrance of the area and presents the ball with a first-rate whip, drawing a game that seemed stranded in the intermittent biblical rain that both appeared. and disappeared in Barcelos. Or that the goal of the turn comes from the head of the same man, here it will be something more common, but that head was ready and perhaps we all realized that that extra will was that in Coates’ head when in the flash almost breaks. Crying, because this week a great friend, the player Morro García, has shortened his life on earth, because the little star, this one, does not appear at all and sometimes leaves when we need it most.
Another star now has Coates in the sky, but tonight it was a whole solar system at Sporting, with those two goals and a change of course that increases the gap to 2nd place: now there are eight points for FC Porto, they are many points, but it is also possible that this match against Gil Vicente has reinforced caution, because in this “rare” championship, as Rúben Amorim called it, the truth is that all teams seem capable, with better or worse weapons, of carrying points to favorites. .
Take Gil Vicente, for example, who in the midst of the rain in the first half dried up Sporting about what Sporting does best. With a line of five defenders, he took spaces from the leader, those spaces that Sporting likes to take advantage of in depth. He put pressure on the lions’ midfield, forced mistakes, killed Sporting’s inner game and even Amorim’s defensive line, always so straight, seemed the usual calm. The lesson was well done.
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That’s why Gil was the best team in the 1st half and didn’t even surprise the advantage at half-time. In the 26th minute, Palhinha missed, Fujimoto advanced and Adan still stopped the first shot, seeing Baraye’s failure on the rebound completely unarmed. It was the first warning for what was to come, ten minutes later precisely, again the passive defense without being able to kill a work by Gil and again the Japanese Fujimoto as the main actor, to flee behind Antunes to give the best way to such a perfect cross as poisonous by Claude Gonçalves.
Rúben Amorim knew that Sporting from the 1st half would not win in Barcelos and the substitutions gave Sporting more to the game. Gonçalo Inácio provided the balance for the attack and the security of the defense that Neto did not seem to be able to give. Tiago Tomás selflessly offered the intensity of the custom. And Daniel Bragança gave the touch of the ball, the talent to possess it in plays that Sporting had invariably lost in the 1st half. Even so, he needed to create more and 10 minutes from the end of the game, the only clear opportunity had been Tiago Tomás, almost 20 minutes ago, giving the ball badly after a corner that had left him on top of Denis.
Then Coates appeared, carrying a solar system on his back, sometimes pain does these things, it leaves people with some other force and in this case it was enough force to turn a game around: a goal at 83 ‘, another at 90’ +1, the last one with a little help from Denis.
Sporting’s games have already been played in the last few minutes, the champions are also made with these beliefs and Sporting’s belief goes on and on. Could it be another round of games?
