Francisco Geraldes questions Sporting's passivity: Is it a matter of... | OneFootball

Francisco Geraldes took to social media and, using some images from the Sport TV broadcast, raised a question related to the derby against Benfica that, according to him, has not been discussed. In the video, the former Sporting player explains that the Lions' players were not prepared for the second ball in either penalty.

"Still on Sporting - Benfica... I’m not here to talk about whether it 'should have been disallowed'. There are rules I don’t even know. I wanted to talk about a situation I haven’t seen anyone mention and that left me a little... It’s passed now," he began by saying in a post shared on Instagram.

"People say big games are decided by small details. The small details, the little things make the difference. Okay, but what does that mean? I like to understand how things happen, why things happen," highlighted the former Club midfielder, who currently plays for South Korea’s Seoul E-Land.

"Luis Suárez takes the penalty and not a single Sporting player is ready for the second ball. There is always the possibility of a player missing. And on the potential rebound there are seven [he later says eight] Benfica players against just one Sporting player, who isn’t even in a very favorable position. But the same thing happens in the opposite situation, when Schjelderup goes to take the penalty," he stressed.

"The reaction of the Benfica and Sporting players also points in the same direction. If Rui Silva had saved it, there were three Benfica players with the chance to score on the rebound. 'Ah, but the Benfica players entered [the box] too early'. At the moment Suárez strikes the ball, there are two Benfica players one step inside the box. In other words, they didn’t enter that much too early. And it’s not something the Sporting players shouldn’t also have done," he pointed out.

In the same video, Francisco Geraldes also left some written notes. In one of them, the former Sporting player asked: "This image is excellent because of the number of Benfica players. I don’t know if it shows a greater desire and determination to win, but it shows something." And he ends: "The question is: how do you explain the 8v1 on the rebound? Is it a matter of determination? Overconfidence in the taker? Fatigue (19th minute)?".

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