Two -time champion with ‘upgrade’ delighted Alvalade 2.0 (chronicle)

Sugurase-tuning sleeves, part I, and the game went to a determined break. Sugurse-legged, part II, and a good night has become fantastic. The only different thing that could have happened in the new Alvalade 2.0 this Sunday was the difference in the result being even greater. Arouca did not fit a shot with the leonine goal. Sporting, for its turn, scored six times and failed another dozen opportunities.

Post-Gyokeres time is the main unknown of the two-time national champion and the Portuguese championship itself. It is still, because the proof is long and much is to happen, but Sporting’s first signs are very positive, pointing that the storm is not as serious as it seemed. The lion is retreated, plays in a different tactical order from the one that led to the last titles and shows results. For now, two quiet wins in the league and zero goals conceded.

Admittedly, there is a decisive moment for the outcome of the game, when Nandín addresses Ignatius very recklessly (rudely, in the technical language of the referees) and is expelled, with the aggravation of having been marked and Sporting reaching 2-0 when the match was just over half an hour. Arouca was sassy, wanted to play, but if so then had difficulty in the hosting of the home owners, in much worse situation was.

The national national champion was not for jokes and, contrary to what was often in the past, did not touch the advantage to manage the missing time. It did so closer to the end, but still coming with danger to the Beirã area. The return to Alvalade, now an Alvalade 2.0 with a new costume and full of technologies, was very seriously taken by the team. Good pitch, good atmosphere, good time, home practically full, why not toast fans with a good game?

There is a recurring discussion, raised almost whenever one team pits another, phenomenon by the way increasingly rare: it must those who are winning respect Does the opponent taking the foot off the throttle? Sporting understood that not, and here it will be the right understanding. Coming, that would be disrespectful to Arouca. It is a professional team that had a game with their vicissitudes and was therefore penalized. But you don’t need you to pity her. You need to continue working and have better days. Who knows, for example, what can happen inside a return on the lion visit to Serra da Freita?

Sporting is increasingly comfortable on Rui Borges’s 4x2x3x1. Plays loose, presses, finds spaces, creates situations and some of them even very beautiful, reminiscent of the concept of Artistic note that Jesus helped introduce into Portugal. THE upgrade That the coach postponed to the new season seems to go well and, to help, the reinforcements correspond: sleeves grabbed the title with two goals scored (is left-back …), Suárez converted a penalty with coldness and made a great goal, entered the second part and came in time to make a side to side, and show several good movements.

There are no Gyokeres, of course. A new era began, the life of football teams is yet, because the player who is larger than some club is being born. In the pre-season Sporting seemed hesitant. In the Super Cup was up to it and lost how it could have won, in front of the similar quotation opponent. In the league, it is devastating. We don’t know how it will end, but it is very clear that it starts well.