Rui Borges on AVS SAD-Sporting refereeing: green mantle on pitch | OneFootball

Sporting drew (1-1) away to AVS SAD and further complicated the title race, leaving Porto closer to the championship. At the end of the match, Rui Borges made no secret of his frustration with the result and criticized the refereeing.

“We did more than enough, unfortunately we couldn’t score and we came away hard done by. That’s football. We have to keep our heads up and move on,” he began, speaking in the post-match flash interview on Sport TV.

Asked about the penalty awarded in AVS’s favor, the Sporting coach was cryptic but made his message clear: “It’s the so-called green cloak, the green cloak was spread here today, that’s basically it, the green cloak was on the pitch. I’m not going to comment.”

With this result, Sporting lose ground in the fight for second place, becoming more dependent on other results. Even so, Rui Borges stressed the need to respond: “We have to keep our heads up and keep going on our path. Tough games, it’s normal that we’re feeling some fatigue. We have to get back up, we’re at a big club.”

The green-and-white side return to action next Wednesday, April 29, against Tondela. The match, corresponding to Matchday 26 (rescheduled) of the Liga Portugal Betclic, against Gonçalo Feio’s team, will kick off at 8:15 p.m. at the José Alvalade Stadium.

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