Sporting boss on defeat: takes swipe at rivals, very expectant | OneFootball

Filipe Neto analyzed the defeat of Sporting's under-23 team. The lions suffered a home defeat by 1-0, against Santa Clara in a match for the fourth round of Liga Revelação, which was played on the morning of this Tuesday, August 26.

“It was a very similar game between the first and second half, but with different numbers. In the first half, Santa Clara managed to have more scoring opportunities, even being a very expectant team, waiting behind to steal balls and attack our defense. They managed to do so and scored the goal from outside the box,” said the coach of Clube de Alvalade to the club's media.

Next, Filipe Neto showed that the second half went better for Sporting, even creating some scoring opportunities: “The second half was a bit different. We continued to be in the opponent's midfield, but we had difficulty in defining and choosing the last pass. We still managed to send two balls to the post, which put us close to scoring.”

“The game went where we didn't want it to, to the duels, because Santa Clara has a superior morphology to ours. All games are a reason for evolution and this one is no different. We will look at it, analyze it, and want to evolve in our processes,” he concluded, showing that he is already thinking about the next game of the under-23 lion formation.

With 6 points won in Series B of Liga Revelação, the Sporting led by Filipe Neto returns to the fields on September 16, to face the Estoril formation. The under-23 lions have a meeting scheduled for 11am, at Estádio Coimbra da Mota.

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