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[BlueLion. 21,491]

Sporting Lisbon 0-1 Chelsea

POST-MATCH DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS

UEFA Champions League Group Stage - Matchday 2
Tuesday 30 September, 2014

Estádio José Alvalade

19:45 Kick Off (UK time)

[Mechromancer 262]

4 points. Nice.

[Myself 793]

sell courtois buy patricio

Don't even joke...

[jeronimo 130]

Pretty unbelievable game. On another day we would have put past at least 4.

In the end we held on and got the result we were after.

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

They don't make it easy for themselves do they?

Positives: Matic was sublime today (dat pass to Costa), Oscar was superb and deserved a goal or two. Costa is a fucking beast. LOVE watching him lead the line, so glad he's ours

Rui Patricio had a stormer, HATE Nani and that dick who kept chopping down Hazard.

Good three points! Woop woop!

[cosmicway 1,333]

Sporting are a good team.

Left themselves exposed but they played well.

We missed infinite number of chances, made it dangerous.

[MichaelDance 552]

Hold on..ahhhh don't go backwards

Phew done...my 4 1 prediction lol way off

Haha I thought 1 - 2

It's a hard one between Courtois, Matic, Oscar and as Courtois did amazing in goal I think he's our Man of the Match today.

[LAM09 7,056]

We got the win!!!!!

[laeth 527]

Their keeper played a blinder. Should of been 0-4.

[Cholo 428]

3 pts. Good performance. I am fully satisfied.

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

Aw man that was close, we could've gotten a draw! Anyways this was a fantastic game, I really enjoyed it... So nice to see my Sporting back on the CL spotlight.

Patrício saved us from an embarassement tbh, what a game he had. With one point things are tougher for us to go through but at least Schalke and Maribor tied.

GG my fellow posters.

[Sheva. 5,373]

Should have been easier. But our defending was good and they didn't have a clear chance to equalize.

[Rom2013 446]

We are in a great position in Champions League. Schalke didn't win... we are going to be first and we can rotate a little in the next game.

Oscar can't miss that goal. it's the second in consecutive games.

[zolayes 14,489]

Should have been easier. But our defending was good and they didn't have a clear chance to equalize.

HOW the fuck was that 1 O

[LayZ 201]

Top of the group...yay..

[Blue Traveler 256]

Fucking circus of a performance. we missed like 10 fucking sitters!!!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

What a weird game. Matic probably scored from the toughest chance we had all evening!

[Daniel1980 1,425]

Good game by the team. I thought Matic, Oscar, Fabregas, Hazard all played well--both offensively and defensively.
Andre's finishing was woeful. Costa and Oscar's finishing wasn't good today. And Salah should have scored after Cesc's through ball.

[jeronimo 130]

It was just one of them days when the ball doesn't want to go in the net.

Funnily enough the only goal we scored today was from the hardest chance we had.

[Thendo 1,088]

3 points is the most important thing, I think our lack of goals came from a mixture of poor finnishing and that Patricio had a crazy game. Otherwise a decent day at the office. And Matic for motm imo, even without the goal he had a really solid performance which is assuring considering his kinda "slow" start of the season.