Sporting title winner slams Lions' season: only the blind can't see | OneFootball

The draw against AVS SAD left Sporting in a delicate position in the fight for second place and opened the door to harsh criticism from Augusto Inácio, a former title-winning coach for the Lions, who bluntly analyzed the season’s main problems.

"I’d say the players were heavily overloaded in this last month… it was overload after overload... Porto clearly focused on the league… only the blind can’t see it", he said in an exclusive interview with the newspaper A BOLA.

Another critical point he highlighted was the high number of injuries and the difficulty in getting players fit again, raising doubts about the medical management. "So why are there so many injuries and such long recovery times? And those who do recover… do they just go down again straight away?" he asked.

Augusto Inácio also spared no criticism for the squad building and the decisions made in the winter transfer market, arguing that attacking options were lacking. "No big club can have only two strikers. It has to have at least three", he stated. This topic was also discussed in Leonino Exclusive with Nuno Saraiva.

Finally, he left a clear message about what remains of the season. "Very honestly, winning the Portuguese Cup with Torreense is very little for this season", before addressing the coach’s contractual situation, arguing for stability and warning with a recent example from their rival. "Rui Borges has a contract until 2027… after that, we’ll see. Roger Schmidt was champion with Benfica and four months later they were sacking him," he concluded.

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