Journalist targets Rui Borges: Sporting are walking a tightrope | OneFootball

Based on last Wednesday’s press conference, regarding the match against AFS for the quarter-finals of the Portuguese Cup, Rui Borges said that “luck takes hard work,” when addressing Sporting’s last four victories in the final moments of each game. However, even though Hugo Vasconcelos agrees with the coach, the journalist also points out that, for this very reason, the Club is “walking a tightrope.”

“Luck takes a lot of hard work, and you shouldn’t take away the merit from the lion’s ability to win games with goals in stoppage time. But it’s still luck. ‘We end up being happy to score, but the happiness is the same at the beginning as in the last minute,’ the coach also said… and there I can’t agree. In reality, this Sporting is walking a tightrope — they’ve shown tremendous balance not to fall, but they are much less secure than if they had both feet firmly on the ground,” he highlighted.

“That Rui Borges’ team has managed to secure victories at the 90th minute or later is a great sign — it shows the team’s resilience, conviction, and psychological strength. But what the coach has to ask is: why has this been necessary?; why has Sporting, in the last four games, reached the 89th minute without being ahead?” the journalist emphasized.

“And if against PSG and Athletic Bilbao, given the strength of the opponents, it’s not hard to understand (although the quality, or lack thereof, of the first-half performance in the Basque Country is still concerning), against Arouca or Nacional, the lion’s attacking output fell well short of expectations, considering the differences in the league standings,” said Hugo Vasconcelos.

“So yes, there has been merit but also luck in the way Sporting has managed to win at the last gasp. But more than that: that merit, and that luck, shouldn’t be used to hide what’s not going so well,” the journalist concluded, saying that the lions shouldn’t focus so much on luck.

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