2-0: Luis Suárez leads Sporting de Portugal’s victory

The Colombian Luis Suarez This Saturday he recorded a goal and an assist that were decisive for the victory in Lisbon of the Sporting about him Madeira National 2-0 on the fifth day of the Portuguese League.

Sporting suffered some difficulties against a Nacional team that had just fired its coach, and only managed to unlock the score when Suárez converted a penalty in the 32nd minute.

When celebrating the goal, the Colombian put his fingers to the corners of his mouth, sketching a smile, after the local press questioned the coach. Rui Borges in the previous press conference about his attacker’s lack of smiles after scoring.

This was the fourth league goal and the third consecutive day seeing the goal of the ‘coffee grower’, who was the top scorer in the last edition of the Portuguese League.

The ‘lions’ extended their advantage at the beginning of the second half and, once again, Suárez was key, as he received a long pass from the Belgian Zeno Debastheaded towards the area and passed the ball to the left, where the youth player Flavio Goncalves He pushed it into the back of the goal.

With this result, Sporting adds 13 pointsand is two behind the leader, the champion Porto.

Benfica also wins

For his part, the Benfica, third with 10 points but with one less game played, beat the Maritime (0-3) in an outstanding performance by the Argentine Gianluca Prestianni.

The first goal in the Madeira archipelago came in the 7th minute, the work of Leandro Barreirowho put the ‘eagles’ ahead by taking advantage of a rebound after a stop by the Andalusian goalkeeper Alfonso Pastor one shot from Prestianni.

Benfica controlled the ball, but were unable to extend their lead until the 71st minute, when Barreiro scored his double with a header at the far post.

In the 82nd minute, Prestianni closed the scoring with a powerful shot and scored his third goal in the Portuguese championship.