This Monday, Sporting isolated themselves and finished top of the Portuguese Football League by beating Porto 2-0 at home in the match to end the 14th round.
Swede Victor Gyokeres (11 minutes) and Pedro Goncalves (60 minutes) scored the Lions’ goals in a match that saw the Dragons reduced to 10 men after Pepe (51) was sent off.
Thanks to this triumph, Sporting now have 34 points, one more than Benfica and three more than Porto.
Pote’s goal in the 60th minute
Pepe was sent off in the 51st minute.
Dieukeres goal in the 11th minute
SPORTING ELEVEN: Adan; Diomande, Gonzalo Inacio, Eduardo Quaresma; Geni Katamo, Morita, Hjulmand, Matheus Reis; Edwards, Pote and Dieukeres.
Subs: Franco Israel, Francisco Silva, Nuno Santos, Luis Neto, Essugo, Daniel Braganza, Ricardo Esgayo, Trincao and Paulinho.
FC PORTO ELEVEN: Diogo Costa; Joao Mario, Pepe, Ze Pedro and Zaido; Eustaquio, Alan Varela, Pepe and Galeno; Taremi and Evanilson.
Subs: Claudio Ramos, Fabio Cardoso, Grujic, Francisco Conceiço, Ivan Jaime, Andre Franco, Fran Navarro, João Mendes and Gonçalo Borges.
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Live game
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End of the game
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90′Yellow card for Ricardo Esgayo.
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88′Fran Navarro! In an excellent position, he will not be able to save the goal.
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86′Daniel Braganza! Sporting’s new threat – a late cross from Nuno Santos and Braganza in the center of the box – shoots the ball home.
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S. Eustaquio
LeavesAndre Filipe Russo Franco
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84′Diomande takes the corner, but the ball comes out very crooked.
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84′Evanilson
LeavesFran Navarro
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84′Bowl
LeavesTrincao
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84′Hidemasa Morita
LeavesDaniel Braganza
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83′Corner kick for Sporting.
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82′PEDRO GONZALVES! Another great work by Dieukeres! The Swede won the duel in the center of the field, started and served to Pote, but he, being in a good position, shot wide of the goal.
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82′The match was interrupted due to an injury to Victor Dieukeres. He started complaining after Francisco Conceicao hit him.
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81′Yellow card for Francisco Conceição for a foul on Győkeres.
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75′Jeanie Katamo
LeavesRicardo Esgayo
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75′Marcus Edwards
LeavesPaulinho
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74′Joao Mario Neto Lopez
LeavesFrancisco Conceição
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73′Z. Sanusi
LeavesFabio Cardoso
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72′The goal was disallowed against Porto! Taremi feeds to Evanilson to hit the ball into the net, but he is ahead of schedule.
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71′Dieukeres is flagged for offside. The Sporting striker appears to be starting in front of the midfield line.
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70′Yellow card for Gonçal Inacio for taking too long to return the ball to Porto.
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69′Gonzalo Inacio complains a lot.
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68′Yellow card for Taremi for hitting Goncalo Inacio in the air.
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67′Taremi! Good work by Porto’s Iranian striker in the left corner of the Sporting penalty area, but the shot was slightly deflected.
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66′New corner for Porto, provided by Matheus Reis.
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66′Hjulmand took the corner.
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64′Dieukeres is flagged for offside.
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64′ADAN! Stick to the Sporting goalkeeper! Good transfer from Porto: Pepe leads and serves Evanilson. The Brazilian striker dominates with his chest and shoots easily, but Adan catches the ball!
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64′The shot was deflected into the center of the goal. Pote (Sporting) strikes with his left foot from the center of the penalty area. Help Nuno Santos.
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62′Eduardo Filipe Quaresma Vieira Coimbra Simões
LeavesNuno Santos
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60 minutesSPORTS GOAL! This is Pedro Goncalves! It all starts with great work from Zhenya Katamo, who feinted Estakio and launched Gyokeres deep. All alone, the Swede saw Pedro Goncalves’ second pass and passed the ball to him. Pote just had to stop. The score is 2-0.
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58′Corner for Sporting.
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58′DIGO COSTA! But what defense to prevent what looked like a certain Edwards goal. The Englishman’s shot was very good, he crossed and pulled it out, but the Dragons’ goalkeeper reached out and deflected the shot to the side.
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57′Yellow card for Eduardo Quaresma for taking too long to take a free kick.
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57′Ze Pedro tries to cross the ball into the goal after a free kick, but the Sporting defense blocks this move.
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51′Pepe is excluded! Direct red card to the Porto captain. Nuno Almeida understands that there is aggression on the part of the Portugal international and, after viewing the images, orders the expulsion.
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50 minutesNuno Almeida is called in to VAR to review the move.
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49′Matheus Reis is out of action due to the Pepe situation. The Sporting winger tried to prevent a quick free-kick, but the Porto captain opened his hand, leaving the Brazilian to bleed.
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Beginning of part 2
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45 minutesADAN! What a great save by the Sporting goalkeeper to deny Galeno’s goal. A perfect cross from Joao Mario and the Porto striker headed the ball from the second post into a save with the feet of the Spanish goalkeeper of Sporting.
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40 minutesEvanilson shoots. Adan was in control of the situation.
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31′Offside, Porto. Pepe Aquino made a through ball, but Evanilson was in the wrong position.
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26 minutesYellow card for Sporting’s bench. This is Nuno Santos, who intercepted the ball when Alan Varela tried to throw it quickly.
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24 minutesMarcus Edwards tries to hit the Porto goal, but the ball is blocked by Pepe and falls into the hands of Diogo Costa.
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20 minutesBowl! He did a good job on the left flank, pulled it into the center and fired it to the far post, the ball did not go far. Diogo Costa, I must say, controlled the game.
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18 minutesDIOMANDA! He was in a great position for 2-0, almost in a small area, but his header went straight into the hands of Diogo Costa.
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17 minutesYellow card for Alan Varela for a foul on Zhenya Katamo.
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16 minutesThe match was interrupted to assist Zhenya Katamo, who was left lying after Alan Varela’s challenge in midfield.
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15 minutesYellow card for Pepe.
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11 minutesSPORTS GOAL! Tag the usual suspect: Victor Dieukeres! The Swedish striker went one-on-one with Pepe, collected the rebound from the left and struck the first post with space, finding a gap between Diogo Costa and the post.
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