Sporting – 21:32
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Midfielder Pedro Gonçalves praised the importance of Sporting’s triumph (3-2) last Monday night in Chaves, against the Trás-os-Montes team, in a match for the 21st round of the League in which he scored twice and could still have reached the ‘hat’ trick’, but passed the responsibility for a penalty to Chermiti, who did not score the goal (save by Bruno Moura).
A special game for the versatile 24-year-old leonine player, if he was also from Trás-os-Montes, born in Vidago, as the winner of ‘A Bola de Prata’ (league’s top scorer) 2020/21 admitted.
«Above all, it was an excellent game from the team, which had a lot of support in the stands: I’m happy about that. Yes, it was special for me, because I’m from this region, so I didn’t celebrate the goals too much, yes. Now we want to go to Denmark and take another victory [Midtjylland, Liga Europa, quinta-feira]», said at the end, in statements to Sport TV, the leonine player, who explained why he declined the chance of a (his) third goal in the match, when passing the ball to Chermiti for him to try to convert one of the two penalties that Sporting had (he himself had converted the first one).
′′ Yes, I handed the ball to Chermiti. I hope I can have many more and many goals. He [Chermiti] he deserved it, I was sad that he didn’t manage to score a goal, but he will surely score many», was the hope left by Pedro Gonçalves, who was used again by Rúben Amorim in several positions, starting at midfielder, but going into the attack after the substitution by Francisco Trincao.
«I try to do what the ‘mister’ asks of me, I give my all in training and games. It is a positive result and display, collectively, of the team. We could have scored even more goals. Thursday we have a very important game, which could dictate a lot of our season [Midjylland]», emphasized Pedro Gonçalves in his farewell, referring to the second leg of the ‘play off’ for access to the round of 16 of the Europa League, in which Sporting travels to Denmark after 1-1 in Alvalade, in the first leg of the tie, and is forced to win – or at least hold out for 120′ and win in the penalty shoot-out – to move forward in the UEFA competition.
