Fernando Nélson: We've barely seen this Sporting player yet | OneFootball

Georgios Vagiannidis is in line for the starting eleven of Sporting against Moreirense, causing Iván Fresneda to return to the substitutes' bench. This decision by Rui Borges is backed by Fernando Nélson, who acknowledges the advantage of the Greek international in the position.

"Firstly, I want to highlight the management that Rui Borges has been doing in relation to the fullbacks and it's not only on the right side as Mangas has also been and lines up on the left. Fullbacks are the players who have the most wear in teams like Sporting as they are forced to move up several times and then have to quickly recover their position", he began, in statements to the Record newspaper.

However, Vagiannidis is a more vertical player and stronger in 1x1".

"I believe that Fresneda is stronger in defense but I need to see more. It's true that Sporting continues to build with three and we haven't yet seen Vagiannidis in games against Porto and Benfica...we've seen very little of him", he added, before reminding of the importance of the opponent in this choice: "We need to see the characteristics of the direct rival as not all allow the constant move up in which Fresneda is not as strong. It's true that Vagiannidis played very well with Famalicão but we need to see more".

This season, with the Sporting jersey, Georgios Vagiannidis - valued at 8 million euros - has participated in four matches. The green and white fullback has played a total of 188 minutes, in which he managed to make an assist for his teammates.

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