A hat-trick by Rodrigo Ribeiro launched Sporting to a 6-0 thrashing on Tuesday in the visit to the red lantern in Marseille, which allowed the Lisbon team to consolidate their leadership of Group D of the Youth Soccer League.
The Portuguese club, which had drawn 1-1 on the trip to the Eintracht Frankfurt stadium and beat Tottenham 2-0 at the reception, increased the lead over the runner-up to two pointsnow the Germans, who beat the English 1-0 on Tuesday. Tottenham are in third place, four points behind Sporting, while Marseille are bottom, six points behind..
Sporting broke the resistance of the French in the 26th minute, when Rodrigo Ribeiro opportunely deflected an Afonso Moreira cross, scoring the first of the match’s three goals, and the lions sealed the match before half-time.
In the 40th minute, Samuel Justo increased the lead to 2-0, completing a good move by Sporting’s attack with a goal, and, a few seconds after Marseille restarted the match, in the 41st minute, Mateus Fernandes recovered the ball , combined with Rodrigo Ribeiro and put the 3-0 at halftimewith a low shot placed at the entrance of the area.
Rodrigo Ribeiro completed the hat-trick to open the second half, with goals scored in the 49th and 52nd minutesfirst after a corner kick and then with a timely header, corresponding to a center directed by David Monteiro.
Afonso Moreira increased the numbers of the win, in the 59th minute, with a well-placed shot inside the host area, but the expulsion of David Monteiro, in the 70th minute, for having stopped a rival who isolated himself towards the Leonine goal, stopped Sporting’s goalscoring momentum.
Marseille did not know how to take advantage of the fact that they played the last 20 minutes in numerical superiority, even missing a penalty due to Diego Calai’s foul on Lukoki, which the goalkeeper corrected the mistake and saved from the shot by Esey Gebreyesus.
Source: Observadora
