After a game marked by ineffectiveness, Sporting massacred Casa Pia. At half-time, it was already 5-0.
These are goals, sir, they are goals. Legend has it that this same Sporting team was coming off a game marked by ineffectiveness. This Monday’s multiplication was not a miracle, but it was certainly a dream. Five accurate shots in the first half alone. Three more in the second. The leader runs over Casa Pia and continues ahead and forward.The story of this match is therefore told by the goals. And there were barely enough lines to do so. The feast began in the 14th minute: a free kick from Nuno Santos and captain Coates beginning to highlight Sporting’s 350th game in the best possible way. Header and 1-0.
It was just the first sign of the combination of a hungry lion and some tender geese. Next, the ball is lost in a prohibited zone and the one who doesn’t forgive is Gyokeres, served on Pote’s tray. 2-0.Two goals and just two more minutes until the third. Now it was Hjulmand serving Pedro Gonçalves and another inside. And in this kind of crushing goal, you need to pause to appreciate the tunnel that Nuno Santos makes to an opponent before the penalty conceded and converted by Viktor Gyokeres. 30 minutes, four goals. Devastating.
It gave the idea that this was every shot… every goose. Casa Pia replaced one of the central players – to avoid a greater disaster due to possible expulsion. It was a kind of white flag, asking for clemency. No results.Just before the break, Francisco Trincão scored the fifth and took an advantage into the break that had not been seen in a championship game in Alvalade since 1973 – with Beira-Mar, and it ended 5-2. Unfortunately for Casa Pia’s sins, there were in fact more goals, but for Amorim’s men, they even had the luxury of rotating the team. Catamo returned, saw and scored the sixth. Coates scored twice for seven and Trincão scored twice for eight, with another great goal on a night of fragrant football. Roses in January? These are goals, sir, they are goals.
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