Sporting squad know what Rui Borges is feeling after defeat to Porto | OneFootball

Despite the 2-1 defeat against Porto last Saturday, Rui Borges expressed satisfaction with his players. The match on August 30 marked Sporting's first loss in the championship, but also the first for the Mirandela coach at the helm of the green and white team.

According to information reported by the newspaper A Bola, the coach of the leonine team made a point of speaking to his squad when the teams gathered in the locker room after the final whistle, where he conveyed a message of confidence for the future to his players, largely due to the strength they found after falling behind on the scoreboard.

At the point in the match when Porto managed to score two goals in quick succession, between the 60th and 64th minutes, the Sporting players did not give up and chased the result. The pushing up of the lines and increased pressure resulted in the first goal for the green and whites and only didn't lead to a second due to an intervention by Diogo Costa on a shot by Luis Suárez.

As such, Rui Borges was pleased with the personality shown by his athletes and demonstrated that this will be an essential factor in the journey towards the leonine three-peat. The green and white coach's message also served to calm his squad, showing that there are still many points at stake and that nothing is lost.

Sporting will return to the field only on the weekend of September 13/14, against Famalicão. The match, counting for the fifth round of the National Championship, against the team led by Hugo Oliveira, will be played in Minho with the date and time yet to be defined.

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