Sporting on the verge of historic milestone ahead of the Clássico | OneFootball

Sporting is just three goals away from reaching the milestone of 100 successful finishes in 2025/26. The team led by Rui Borges has scored 97 goals in 39 official matches, spread across the league, Portuguese Cup, League Cup, and Champions League, maintaining an impressive average of 2.49 goals per game, the best in the country.

In the league, the Lions have already scored 62 times in 24 rounds. Their domestic tally is complemented by 12 goals in the Portuguese Cup, six in the League Cup, and 17 in the Champions League, a competition where the level of difficulty is at its highest. Since the Super Cup—the only match in which they failed to score (a 0-1 defeat to Benfica)—the green and whites have always found the net, even in games they did not win.

A large part of the attacking responsibility falls on Luis Suárez, who has scored 29 goals—22 in the League, four in the Champions League, two in the Portuguese Cup, and one in the League Cup—numbers that represent about 30% of the team's total output. Francisco Trincão and Pedro Gonçalves (11 goals each) and Geny Catamo (seven) have also been decisive, along with Ioannidis and Geovany Quenda, who contributed despite physical issues.

Compared to their rivals, Braga appears as the second-best attack, with 93 goals in 45 games (an average of 2.07). Porto, meanwhile, has an average of 1.97 goals per game (73 in 37), while Benfica has 78 in 45 matches (1.73).

Sporting wants to score goals this Tuesday, March 3, against Porto. The match, counting for the first leg of the Portuguese Cup semi-finals, against the team managed by Francesco Farioli, will be played at 8:45 pm at Estádio José Alvalade—which is open to all members.

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