Sporting repeats Shakhtar's success, gets a big away victory against Bundesliga team
Sporting started the new season of the Champions League with an unexpected away victory over Frankfurt, which will remind Ukrainian fans of yesterday's success of Shakhtar Donetsk. As in the case of the orange-blacks victory in Leipzig, the Portuguese team did not play better than the hosts, but used almost all of its chances, as a result scoring three times against Sporting.
2022-23, Champions League
Frankfurt - Sporting CP 0:3 (0:0)
Goals: Edwards M., 65 (0:1); Trincão, 67 (0:2); Santos N., 82 (0:3)
Frankfurt: Trapp; Tuta; Ndicka; Lenz C. (Pellegrini Lu., 46); Götze; Jakic (Knauff, 84); Dina (Borré R.S., 67); Lindstrøm (Alario, 74); Sow Dj.; Kamada (Hasebe, 84); Kolo Muani
Bench: Ramaj; Grahl; Smolcic; Onguéné; Chandler; Alidou
Yellow Cards: Ndicka 38; Jakic 55
Sporting CP: Adán; Inacio; Coates; Porro; Reis M.; St. Juste (Neto L., 52); Morita; Pedro Gonçalves (Santos N., 79); Ugarte; Edwards M. (Rochinha, 73); Trincão (Paulinho F., 79)
Bench: Israel; Paulo An.; Esgaio; Marsà José; Alexandropoulos; Issahaku; Arthur Gomes