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Match report
Football Elite
Elite Cup: Round 4 (setup 4, season 9)
Sporting
v.
Espanyol
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
5
Overall form:
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RUI Pedro dos Santos PATRÍCIO1David DE GEA Quintana
Formation:
4-3-3
League position:
3
Overall form:
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Stefan RISTOVSKI2Lukasz PISZCZEK
GELSON Dany Batalha MARTINS3FERNANDO NAVARRO Corbacho
WILLIAM Silva de CARVALHO747David Jiménez SILVA
Sebastián COATES Nion658Laurent KOSCIELNY
ANDRÉ Almeida PINTO67Andreas CHRISTENSEN
Daniel Castillo PODENCE677Sami KHEDIRA
Marcos Javier ACUÑA68PEDRO Eliezer Rodríguez Ledesma
Bas DOST97Robert LEWANDOWSKI
BRUNO Miguel Borges FERNANDES710DIEGO da Silva COSTA
Bryan Jafet RUIZ González611Sergio Leonel AGÜERO
Manager
Alan Nahuel RUIZ12VÍCTOR ÁLVAREZ Delgado
Lukás HRÁDECKÝ13Francisco Casilla Cortés, KIKO CASILLA
Rodrigo Andrés BATTAGLIA146Franck RIBÉRY
BRUNO CÉSAR Zanaki15RUBÉN Duarte Sánchez
Radosav PETROVIC16Víctor RUÍZ Torre

Sporting 1 Espanyol 3
(Half-time: 1-1, Attendance: 49,939, Stadium: José Alvalade XXI, Referee: William YOUNG 6½)
4 DostScorers32 Lewandowski, 74 Lewandowski, 88 Piszczek
Substitutions75 Christensen <=> Ribéry
Sendings off
Bookings68 Christensen
2Corners7
15Fouls11
1Offsides1
3Shots on7
4Shots off11
7Total shots18
0Shots saved4
44%Possession56%
Man of the match: Laurent KOSCIELNY
2A strike from BRUNO FERNANDES held little difficulty for DE GEA.
4GOAL!! A Sporting counter-attack allowed ACUÑA to setup DOST with a simple goal. (1-0 Sporting)
6A tame strike from PEDRO trickled agonisingly wide.
7A cross from KHEDIRA left LEWANDOWSKI in plenty of space but he rushed his shot.
14The Espanyol 'keeper was able to block a tame header from RUIZ.
20KOSCIELNY beat two Sporting players and fired a golden opportunity just wide.
27A penalty box scramble resulted in ACUÑA tapping a low shot over.
31LEWANDOWSKI's shot beat the 'keeper but rebounded off the Sporting post.
32GOAL!! Uncertainty between GELSON MARTINS and the Sporting 'keeper allowed LEWANDOWSKI to crack the ball into the empty net. (1-1)
33WILLIAM CARVALHO beat KOSCIELNY and drove the ball to DOST who dragged his shot wide.
 
47AGÜERO made space on the left and pulled the ball to PEDRO who rasped the ball over.
50RUI PATRÍCIO dived to his left to block a fierce shot from Espanyol's DIEGO COSTA.
53LEWANDOWSKI headed inches wide.
56A corner found DIEGO COSTA who turned an effort wide.
58Uncertainty in the Espanyol defence enabled DOST to fire an effort inches wide.
65The Sporting 'keeper saved a swerving effort from LEWANDOWSKI.
67SILVA was put clear by AGÜERO and he raced past the 'keeper but glanced his shot over.
68A poor tackle on GELSON MARTINS by CHRISTENSEN results in a booking.
74GOAL!! A short corner was floated out to LEWANDOWSKI who hit the ball in off the post. (2-1 Espanyol)
76DOST stroked a simple chance past the far post.
82A clever cross from KHEDIRA, was fired goalbound by LEWANDOWSKI only for the 'keeper to claw away.
84A fine ball from PISZCZEK on the right bobbled toward PEDRO who scuffed his shot just beyond the near post.
86PEDRO shot wide.
88GOAL!! After KHEDIRA was pulled to the ground the ref waved play-on and PISZCZEK went on to comfortably score. (3-1 Espanyol)
90+2SILVA hoofed the ball wide from the edge of the box.
90+3SILVA ran onto a great ball from DIEGO COSTA but fumbled his shot wide.