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Commentary
1¹The 'keeper dived to his left to save a fierce drive from Lens's TOPALOVIC.
10¹A good effort from ÉDERSON scraped the outside of the righthand post.
11¹MIKEL shot wide.
13¹KALIMUENDO headed wide.
14¹DEAN cautions ÉDERSON for a late challenge.
20¹GOAL!! A neat one-two left McTOMINAY clear and he made no mistake by instinctively floating the ball past the oncoming 'keeper. (1-0 Sporting)
27¹A twenty yard shot from KALIMUENDO caused COURTOIS no problem.
28¹A great strike from KALIMUENDO was dealt with by a useful block from the Sporting 'keeper.
30¹SKÓRAS booked for a late foul on STONES.
34¹A cross from VANAKEN left SKÓRAS in plenty of space but he fluffed his shot.
36¹SKÓRAS beat a number of Sporting players and blasted a shot just beyond the far post.
1²GOAL!! A great twenty-five yard shot from ÉDERSON shook the crossbar and in the ensuing meleé the ball was hoofed into the net by NICO WILLIAMS. (2-0 Sporting)
6²VANAKEN booked for gamesmanship.
13²The ref books DE JONG.
20²The motionless PAU LÓPEZ could only watch as a backpass from XHAKA dropped just over.
27²SKÓRAS dribbled round McTOMINAY and flicked a tame shot over the bar.
28²GOAL!! Uncertainty between ZINCHENKO and the Lens 'keeper allowed WATKINS to fire the ball into the empty net. (3-0 Sporting)
32²A tame shot from KONSA trickled agonisingly wide.
35²GOAL!! A twenty yard free-kick was skillfully stroked in off the post by MUSAH. (3-1 Sporting)
42²GOAL!! A beautiful inswinging corner was forced in at the near post by ESTUPIÑAN. (4-1 Sporting)
44²A penalty box scramble resulted in KALIMUENDO knocking the ball wide.
45²WATKINS made space on the left and knocked the ball to NICO WILLIAMS who touched the ball wide.

 
Sporting
 
League position: -
Home league form: WLW-
Overall league form: WLLWW---
Formation: 4-3-3
Line-ups
Thibaut COURTOIS7 17 PAU LÓPEZ Sabata
(c)Ezri KONSA6½27½Przemyslaw FRANKOWSKI
Pervis ESTUPIÑAN7½36½Oleksandr ZINCHENKO
ÉDERSON José7 47 Frenkie DE JONG
John STONES8 57 Takehiro TOMIYASU
Edmond TAPSOBA7 66½Granit XHAKA
Martín ZUBIMENDI8 77 Yunus MUSAH
Scott McTOMINAY7½86 Michal SKÓRAS
(p)Ollie WATKINS6½96½Arnaud KALIMUENDO(p)
MIKEL Oyarzabal7 106 Hans VANAKEN(c,f)
(f)NICO WILLIAMS7½116 Luka TOPALOVIC
John PickfordManager
Paulo DYBALA  12  José GAYÁ
José DIOGO DALOT  13  Alphonse ARÉOLA
GONÇALO Matias RAMOS  14  Elias CABRERA
ÁLEX BAENA  15  PABLO FORNALS Malla
Julian BRANDT  16  Yari VERSCHAEREN
 
Lens
 
League position: -
Away league form: LLW-
Overall league form: LWLLW---
Formation: 4-3-3
Sporting go through to the next round, 7-2 on aggregate
Statistics
Sporting 4 Lens 1
(Half-time: 1-0, Attendance: 48,710, Stadium: José Alvalade XXI, Referee: Mike Dean 6)

McTominay 20¹, Nico Williams 1², Watkins 28², Estupiñan 42²
Scorers
Substitutions
Sent off
Bookings
Corners
Fouls
Offsides
Shots on
Shots off
Total shots
Shots saved
Possession
Musah 35²
  
  
Éderson 14¹Skóras 30¹, Vanaken 6², de Jong 13²
46
720
91
75
86
1511
24
49%51%
Man of the match: John Stones