Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos: no bad luck, just Sporting incompetence | OneFootball

The slip-up against Arouca once again left Sporting under heavy criticism, and there are already those who admit the Lions may be compromising their title challenge at a very early stage of the season. After yet another two-goal lead thrown away, Sporting fans did not hide their concern about the team’s current situation.

Francisco Rodrigues dos Santos, a lawyer, was particularly harsh in his assessment of the start of the season: "It is Rui Borges’ 17th lost lead. By September, the title may already have slipped away, without us having played any of the big clubs. There were unfortunate incidents, and bad luck tends to find the incompetent more often," he told the newspaper 'Record'.

Carlos Xavier, a former Sporting player, also highlighted the way the team once again made a match difficult that had seemed under control: "Once again Sporting starts the game well and then begins to repeatedly shoot itself in the foot. These slip-ups translate into dropped points that are good for nothing. Now we have to make up for the damage caused."

Isabel Trigo Mira, a former club official, acknowledged the Lions’ good start but considered it inexplicable how the result ended up slipping away: "We started the game well and were ahead at half-time. I accepted the drop-off in the second half, but we threw it all away. There is something there that is not working. We are dropping points for no reason."

Sporting now has three draws in the league and once again threw away a comfortable lead, on a matchday in which Porto and Benfica face each other at the Dragão. Zeno Debast’s sending-off ended up changing the course of the match, but the fans’ criticism makes it clear that concern is growing in Alvalade.

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