Rui Borges has Sporting star hitting career-best form | OneFootball

Rui Borges has Pedro Gonçalves achieving the best numbers of his career at the start of the 2025/26 season. The Portuguese international from Sporting scored and assisted again in the match against Alverca, further enhancing the records he already had up to that point.

The goal and assist in the Sporting - Alverca match increased Pedro Gonçalves' total goal contributions to 14 this season, in 15 matches played by the versatile midfielder so far. Pote is performing like never before, with an average of 0.93 contributions per game - and he even responded to critics recently.

In addition, Pedro Gonçalves Sporting, alongside Luis Suárez, the striker for the lions. They have scored eight goals so far, granting him that status, ahead of Trincão, Ioannidis, and Quenda.

The numbers don't stop there. Pedro Gonçalves started in all 10 matches played by Sporting in the Liga Portugal Betclic, where he scored seven goals and made five more assists - 12 goal contributions, an incredible average of 1.2 participations per game since the start of the national championship in 2025/26. Considering the 25 goals scored by the lions so far, Pote directly participated in 56%.

After a very challenging season, where he was out for more than half of the season, Pedro Gonçalves appears reborn. According to the newspaper A Bola, two factors greatly contributed to this: the birth of his twins in July, and the contract renewal with Sporting, until 2030, recently announced.

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