Just weeks ago, you could argue that Sporting CP were one of the game's most in-form teams. With a 4-1 thrashing of Manchester City in the Champions League and a resolute 4-2 comeback victory over Braga in the Primeira Liga, Ruben Amorim’s Sporting side had all the momentum you could...
Throughout the history of football tactics, certain coaches are synonymous with back-three systems. Helenio Herrera famously deployed a 5-3-2 system during the 1960s with great success at Inter, winning three Serie A titles and two European Cups during those glory years. Carlos Billardo was famed for using a 3-5-2 with...
Who Is Viktor Gyökeres? Negotiations between Coventry City and Sporting CP seemed to slow down this summer, but early performances suggest Viktor Gyökeres was worth the wait. A Swedish international with 14 caps to his name, Gyökeres made a name for himself at the 2017 UEFA European U19 Championship. Though...
Sporting CP lost one of their best performers, Bruno Fernandes, in 2020, and there was doubt whether the team would be able to find a suitable replacement who could support the team’s attacking actions successfully. Months after reaching an agreement with Manchester United for Fernandes, the club secured the signature...
As Sporting Portugal won the 2018/19 Taça de Portugal title, Bruno Fernandes interviewed his good friend and teammate, Stefan Ristovski, as a good-natured piece of entertaining content for the Sportingistas. The Macedonian paused his celebration, took the mic and made a half-joking/half-serious appeal to his superstar teammate, saying, “Please stay...
