{"id":32807,"date":"2015-03-23T12:22:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=32807"},"modified":"2015-03-23T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T16:22:34","slug":"sporting-cp-update-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?p=32807","title":{"rendered":"Sporting CP Update: 3\/23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SCP1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"31345\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/?attachment_id=31345\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SCP1.png?fit=563%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"563,486\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SCP1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SCP1.png?fit=300%2C259&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SCP1.png?fit=563%2C486&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31345\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SCP1.png?resize=563%2C486\" alt=\"SCP1\" width=\"563\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SCP1.png?w=563&amp;ssl=1 563w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SCP1.png?resize=300%2C259&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Leoes<\/em> returned to league action on Sunday versus Guimaraes. After winning their last two league games in unconvincing manner, Sporting\u00a0would need to put together a good performance against Guimaraes, who sit 5th in the standings. And just exactly what the doctor ordered. A 83rd minute goal from Guimaraes&#8217; Kanu would be the only damper in this game, ruining what could of been a clean sheet win for Sporting. 4-1 was your final score.<\/p>\n<p>Sporting didn&#8217;t exactly overwhelm Guimaraes, but were nearly 100 percent accurate with their shots on target. Sporting were up 3-0 at halftime with goals from Joao Mario, Adrien, and Slimani. Nani added a fourth goal by converting the second penalty of the game, with Adrien converting the first.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;B&#8221; team won both league games this week. First up was Oliveirense, who they beat 2-1. Diego Rubio scored again, continuing his hot streak. Then on Sunday they beat Atletico 2-0. No Diego for this game, but Cristian Ponde scored both goals for the &#8220;B&#8221; side.<\/p>\n<p>With both wins the &#8220;B&#8221; team is now in a\u00a0three-team tie for the second spot\u00a0in the Second Division, along with Benfica&#8217;s &#8220;B&#8221; team and Tondela. However, the rules state &#8220;B&#8221; team sides cannot get promoted, so no we won&#8217;t see the &#8220;B&#8221; sides in top flight if they finish inside of the top two.<\/p>\n<p>No games this week due to Portuguese National Team action vs Serbia (Mar. 29\u00a0&#8211; Euro qualifying) and Cape Verde\u00a0 (Mar. 31 &#8211; international\u00a0friendly). The next game for the\u00a0<em>Leoes<\/em> will be\u00a0Apr. 4 versus Pacos de Ferreira.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a successful week for Sporting CP and its B-team. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":31345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[924],"tags":[957,915,892],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nesoccertoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/SCP1.png?fit=563%2C486&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32808,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32807\/revisions\/32808"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nesoccertoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}