Rui Borges readies secret plan for Sporting’s gruelling run | OneFootball

With the grueling cycle of games approaching for Sporting, featuring several highly competitive opponents like Napoli and Braga, Rui Borges has been training a new strategy for the lions' attack with Fotis Ioannidis and Luis Suárez, high-investment players for the green and whites.

This information is being reported by the newspaper Record, which reveals that the player is still going through an adaptation period at Alvalade and has spent the last few weeks assimilating some basic movements of the 4x2x3x1 formation implemented in the green and white team.

Now, after having assessed Ioannidis, Rui Borges has realized the potential he has in his pair of forwards and is therefore convinced to test other tactical models, for which the player has shown willingness, even revealing a certain 'humility' in the learning process of the dynamics.

Recently, at the Academy, Ioannidis and Suárez have been tested together with the support of the wingers - however, this option will only be used in specific situations, such as when Sporting faces very defensive teams and aims to overturn a result.

This season, wearing the Sporting jersey, Fotis Ioannidis – valued at 15 million euros – has played four matches. The 25-year-old Greek international forward has played 78 minutes, during which he has already scored a goal with the green and white stripes.

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