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After last month Sporting was sitting in second place, 3 points ahead of Porto, Benfica is unstoppable and keeps advantage they got in first few months. Last month "Lions" had great results, wining every game, they used opportunity Porto gave them by slipping in some games.
Young players are progressing and getting better with every day and every game, biggest improvement can be seen in next few players: Cedric, Jonathan Silva, William Carvalho, Federico Bravo, Simeon Slavchev, Ryan Gauld, Joao Mario and Carlos Mane...After Nani suffered second injury in this season Mane jumped in and played some amazing games, getting better at almost every aspect of his game.Matheus Pereira was moved from Sporting B to first team, he is showing quality and becoming promising player. Federico Bravo needed few games to adjust but now he is 100% ready, improving every game, 21 year old Argentinian was biggest transfer for Sporting this year ,payed 4.9M euro's.
Here are results for this month, its hard to be better than last month, but Sporting can manage!
VIT.SETUBAL 0 - 2 SPORTING (Martins, Mauricio)
RIO AVE 1 - 3 SPORTING (Mane x2, OG)
LEAGUE CUP SEMI-FINAL:
VIT.GUIMARAES 0 - 1 SPORTING (Gauld)
SPORTING 2 - 1 NACIONAL DE MADEIRA (Mario, Montero)
SPORTING 1 - 1 ESTORIL (Montero)
SPORTING 2 - 0 VIT.GUIMARAES (Gauld x2)
Sporting got victory in intense 1-0 game of League Cup semi-final against Vit.Guimaraes and will play against Porto in the finals on neutral ground. Lions also managed to reach Taca de Portugal semi-final and will play against Benfica in two games. Reminder, Sporting is siting in second position 3 points in front of Porto, only major fall in Benfica form can bring hope of title back to Sporting, even after few fantastic months and there you can see there is still a big gap between Sporting and first place...More is to come.