Sporting slump to heavy Benfica defeat, now eight points back (3-1) | OneFootball

Sporting’s youth team lost 3-1 to Benfica in a match valid for the seventh round of the first phase of the National Under-17 Championship this Wednesday. After drawing with Estoril at the weekend, the Lions dropped points again.

In the match played at Benfica Campus, Sporting made seven changes to the starting eleven, and the green and whites began brightly, hitting the woodwork twice. However, the Reds scored in the 15th minute, when Rúben Tavares converted the rebound from a Tiago Alves shot to put his side ahead.

In the first half, Sporting looked to respond and push for an equaliser, with Yanick Filipe causing Benfica plenty of problems. Even so, it was the Eagles who scored again, this time through a Bernardo Rodrigues header (55'). In the 87th minute, Rúben Marques made it 3-0 for Benfica, before the Lions pulled one back in stoppage time through Martim Oliveira (90'+5).

With this defeat – their second in six matches this season – Sporting’s under-17s remain on ten points in the competition and are now eight behind Benfica (18). Sporting are back in action next Sunday, when they host Alverca at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy (7:00 pm).

The team fielded by the club from Alvalade was made up of: Guilherme Pinto (goalkeeper), Martim Baptista, Gonçalo Gaspar, André Brito, Tiago Freitas, António Dinis, Leonardo Damião, Victor Bastianele (C), Diego Moreira, David Makinde and Yanick Filipe.

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