[Trending News] Sporting wins the penultimate and puts pressure on rivals

Sporting held the comfortable advantage it has at the top of the I Liga classification by defeating 3-1 Farense on Sunday. With the triumph, Sportinguists put pressure on Benfica and FC Porto, their most direct persecutors, who see the “lions” have nine points of advantage.

Rui Borges continued without being able to use Gyökeres and went with Harder again as an earlier man that Sporting was the game. Ahead, a very difficult Farense in the League, penultimate in the table and presented in Alvalade with the clear intention of defending and enduring the null as much time as possible.

The algarve had a five -line defense, with an average line of four (which almost only worried about defending) and a man in front of trying his luck. And it was against this “wall” that Sporting was trying to “do it for life.”

Playing low speed, the “lions” had the full control of the game, but did not bother, until in the first mistake of the Algarve, which failed an output to the attack, they scored. The ball was recovered by Fresheda who, after a first cross without consequences, emerged in the Farense area to divert to the goal a low Harder center. It had been ten minutes and Sporting was doing the hardest, which was finding a loophole on the Algarve wall and was in advantage of the marker.

The game remained favorable to the sportinguistas, with Farense being unable to disturb goalkeeper Rui Silva. And it was naturally and without having to accelerate much that the “lions” dilated the advantage, as early as the minute of a china lesion that forced the Mozambican to abandon the lawn of stretcher. Following a corner, Diomande did 2-0, giving the idea that everything would be easy until the end of the meeting.

Only then did Farense decided to abandon the “fearful” attitude a little that had adopted since the beginning of the match, almost always through Elves Baldé. And it was from the feet of the Guinean, following a side release that the Algarve arrived at the goal, already in the period of compensation of the first half, making the seconds 45 were not of absolute tranquility.

Farense tried to get something more in the second part. Always through Baldé, who in the meantime won the company of Rui Costa. Algarve haven't won for five games, but they haven't lost six. But after about ten minutes with some boldness, Sporting took over the match again.

Trincão, Quenda and Harder had opportunities to solve the game for the sportinguistas, but it was for lack of aim, whether for Ricardo Velho's defenses, the sportinguistas could not do the 3-1 that would “sentence” the game once and for all. And it was with some nervousness that the final minutes of the meeting were lived by the “Leonine” fans as the advantage of the minimum margin and one or another boldness of Farense gave no tranquility.

Until Harder had his prize. The Danish, who has done everything to gain his space in Alvalade, started and concluded (with the chest) the play he gave to Sporting the desired 3-1 who definitely sentenced the departure to the “lions”.