Eduardo Quaresma makes a call on Sporting’s poor run | OneFootball

Eduardo Quaresma, trained at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy, already knows what to do about the difficult situation he is experiencing at Sporting.

Eduardo Quaresma remains fully focused on the mission of earning his place in the squad under Rui Borges’ orders. The central defender was one of the players in Sporting’s back-to-back championship wins in 2024/25, but he doesn’t seem to be enjoying his best moment at Alvalade at the start of this season.

This is because, after finishing last season as a starter—and even scoring a special (and very important) goal in the final minutes of the 32nd round match against Gil Vicente—Eduardo Quaresma has been losing ground in Rui Borges’ choices for the green and white team.

And the truth is that, so far, he has accumulated zero minutes in official matches in 2025/26. The central defender, trained at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy, hasn’t been brought on, neither from the bench nor as a starter, in any of the five matches played by the Lions so far this season.

Eduardo Quaresma appears to have been relegated by Rui Borges to the position of fourth-choice center-back in the Sporting hierarchy. Diomande and Inácio started as the main pair, with the former being replaced by Debast after his injury, and from that moment on, Debast took over the starting spot. This situation, however, does not stop Eduardo Quaresma from maintaining the same focus he has shown in the past.

The newspaper Record even reports that Eduardo Quaresma is only thinking about turning things around, especially since it’s not the first time he’s started badly and finished well. Rui Borges himself seems to agree with the center-back, who has already stated that the 23-year-old "deserved to be a starter" since "he has been working exceptionally well."

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