Viktor Gyokeres and Zeno Debast fired Sporting CP to a 2-0 Champions League win over Lille on Tuesday, after Angel Gomes’ sending-off lowered the French aspect to 10 males.
Sporting created quite a lot of good probabilities within the first half however had been stored at bay by Lille goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier, till Gyokeres latched onto a pleasant move from Pedro Goncalves to open the scoring within the thirty eighth minute.
Two minutes later, Lille had been lowered to 10 males when England worldwide Gomes was proven a second yellow card for tripping Gyokeres, having earlier been booked for a push on Francisco Trincao.
Within the second half, Debast unleashed an outstanding long-range effort into the top-right nook to seal victory for the house aspect.
The Portuguese membership are sixth within the early Champions League standings and face PSV of their subsequent European sport on October 1.
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Gyökeres and Debast
2-0 // #SCPLOSC #UCL pic.twitter.com/W4rWgRGsIM— Sporting CP English (@SportingCP_en) September 17, 2024
Knowledge Debrief: Gomes joins undesirable membership
Gomes made a high-quality influence after being known as up by interim England coach Lee Carsley for Nations League wins over the Republic of Eire and Finland earlier this month.
Nevertheless, he was introduced again all the way down to earth as his pink card proved pricey on Tuesday, turning into simply the fourth Englishman to be despatched off whereas representing a non-English membership within the Champions League.
Mark Hateley for Rangers, Paul Gascoigne twice for a similar membership, Matt Derbyshire for Olympiakos and Fikayo Tomori for Milan are the others to take action.
