Sporting: “In 5 days, 5 years were lost. It’s not an exaggeration and I’ll explain why.”

Champion lost again. Three defeats in a row – not seen since the days of Leonel Pontes. João Pereira changed what he shouldn’t have.

O Sporting lost again. Last night, I was winning in Moreira de Cónegos but the Moreirense turned around and won by .

It was the Sporting’s third consecutive defeat. This negative cycle had not occurred in the Alvalade team since 2019, when the coach was Leonel Pontes.

With these two consecutive setbacks in the championship (and Moreirense), in December Sporting already has as many defeats – two – as in the entire previous edition of the I Liga.

And yes, these two defeats (in addition to the defeat suffered against 1-5) already occurred with him as a coach.

Rúben Amorim’s successor saw white scarves in Minho. But he’s not worried about “ghosts”, He doesn’t even seem scared by this sequence: “Rúben Amorim helped Sporting a lot and these players are no ghosts. It wasn’t him who lifted the ball so it hit the bar. These are moments.”

The coach was referring to the two balls that Sporting hit the post, by Hjulmand and Inácio, both in the second half.

But, as expected, three defeats in a row and overall three defeats in four games, already raise the question: What has changed at Sporting in such a short time?

“It changed everything”starts by responding to Bruno Roseiro on the radio . “In 5 days we saw 5 years disappear completely. It may seem like an exaggeration, but it is not.”

The sports commentator lists some practical aspects that have changed in Sporting’s style of play: plays more and more through the middle, losing width; “unusual” dose of crossings; players “don’t understand” what the coach wants.

“And we have reached the point where, at this moment, if Sporting plays with just one striker, Harder is much more of a starter than Gyökeres“, he pointed out.

Augusto Inácio, who was a coach at Sporting, agrees that the Lisbon team lost width and adds: “It lost depth and abuses a game that does not fit Gyökeres’ characteristics. And the players lost confidencethey lose the ball more, the reaction to the loss is not the same”.

Sporting, which was already leading with some prominence in the I Liga, will soon fall to 2nd place, tied with FC Porto, with Benfica in the lead – if the two rivals win their late games.