Expert: Luis Suárez similar to ex-Sporting Portuguese striker | OneFootball

After Sporting’s 4-1 victory over Kairat, Tomás da Cunha analyzed the performance of the green and white team and said that he sees some similarities between Luis Suárez, Sporting’s new striker, and Liedson, the former Portuguese goal scorer for the Alvalade club.

"Luis Suárez has remarkable cunning to force or take advantage of opponents’ mistakes. In that aspect, he is similar to Liedson. The mobility (between the lines or in space) and the associative sense of Pedro Gonçalves are showing the best paths," he wrote on his account on the platform ‘X’.

At the end of the match, Tomás da Cunha summed up the key points: "Sporting allowed more than Rui Borges would have liked, surely, both in transition (the midfielders were less effective) and due to losses in sensitive areas. In any case, the level shown by Quenda (now, with a stunning goal) and Trincão was worth the ideal rout. Virgínia and Quaresma were up to the task."

With this victory – the fifth in seven matches this season – Rui Borges’s men thus earn their first three points in the competition. The next match in the international competition is scheduled for Wednesday, October 1, at 8:00 pm, away, against the Italians of Napoli.

The green and white team will be back on the pitch next Monday, September 22, against Moreirense, in a match for the sixth round of the Liga Portugal Betclic. The match against Vasco Botelho da Costa’s side will be played at 8:15 pm, at Estádio José Alvalade.

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