Luís Mateus criticises Sporting's form: a wounded lion | OneFootball

The draw in the previous matchday against AVS, the derby defeat to Benfica and the Champions League elimination are haunting Sporting’s month of April. Luís Mateus spoke about the Lions’ recent results and took the opportunity to criticize the Alvalade club.

“The image that remains is that of a broken lion, in spirit and in strength, painfully dragging itself to the finish. A Sporting side that sees its great rival closing in and cannot react, because it has no strength and because it does not believe it still has strength, only vaguely similar ideas. Because they are not the same,” he began by writing in his column for newspaper A Bola.

The journalist from the same media outlet also assessed Rui Borges’ remarks in recent times. “In the end, that speech. ‘We tried, but we couldn’t do it. I am very proud of my players.’ Defeated in tone, fatalistic, a message that does not motivate. Rui Borges needs to change. Does the ‘Green Mantle’ he invoked want to reinvent a new conspiracy theory? If so, he failed there too because of a lack of strength,” he criticized.

To conclude, Luís Mateus believes that, even with winning the Portuguese Cup, nothing will overcome the current sorrow. “Just as O Mundo Sabe Que is a version of Sinatra’s My Way, it is also fair that he wants to win in his own way. The Lions played good football. They were contenders. And they still have the Cup, to dilute the gray that now paints their sky, but the season will not end well. The coach guarantees competitiveness, but that is not enough. He will also have to grow,” he concluded.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇵🇹 here.