Rui Borges has Sporting star hitting the best form of his career | OneFootball

Rui Borges has Pedro Gonçalves putting up the best numbers of his career at the start of the 2025/26 season. The Portuguese international from Sporting scored and assisted again in the match against Alverca, further improving the impressive stats he had already accumulated up to that point.

The goal and assist in Sporting - Alverca brought Pedro Gonçalves’ total goal contributions this season to 14, in 15 games played by the versatile midfielder so far. Pote is performing like never before, with an average of 0.93 contributions per game – and he even recently responded to his critics.

In addition, Pedro Gonçalves currently stands as the team’s top scorer for Sporting, alongside Luis Suárez, the Lions’ striker. Both have scored eight goals so far, earning them that status ahead of Trincão, Ioannidis, and Quenda.

The numbers don’t stop there. Pedro Gonçalves started in all 10 games played by Sporting in Liga Portugal Betclic, where he scored seven goals and provided five assists – 12 goal contributions, an incredible average of 1.2 per game since the start of the national championship in 2025/26. Considering the 25 goals scored by Sporting so far, Pote has directly participated in 56%.

After a very difficult season, in which he was sidelined for more than half the campaign, Pedro Gonçalves has re-emerged. According to the newspaper A Bola, two factors played a major role in this: the birth of his twin daughters in July, and his contract renewal with Sporting until 2030, announced recently.

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