Seven defeats in 17 official matches, four defeats in only 11 games as has not happened since the 2012/13 season, 12 points from first place at the end of the first third of the Championship, elimination from the Portuguese Cup, one more goal He suffered a ball standing in Arouca. If on the last day of the group stage of the Champions League Sporting entered a scenario between heaven and hell, that they could qualify for the round of 16 so quickly even in first position as the elimination of European competitions this season, everything what had happened behind brought a redoubled weight to the meeting with Eintracht. At the end of the match with Arouca, Rúben Amorim pointed to a film that was more of the same: creating chances, not being effective, suffering in one of the rival’s few arrivals. But would that be all?
Sporting-Eintracht Frankfurt. Leones one point away from the second consecutive pass to the round of 16 of the Champions League
In Arouca it could even have been, in the accumulation of all the games there was much more than that. First, the defensive issues. Whether due to concentration breaks or poor positioning, the lions are much more permeable in dead balls and never conceded as many goals at that time in the Amorim era, falling short also in what was the stopping ability of the teams that bet on the transitions. In attack, the commitment to greater mobility does not erase the obvious lack of presence in the area that was fully exposed when Alvalade’s team lost to Varzim. So, with him or thanks to him, the center of the field, once home to all green-and-white machines, he was losing all influence. And it was in light of a question about the weight of tabulation in continuity that Amorim summed it all up in one sentence.
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Source: Observadora
