Sporting 2 - 0 Portimonense (Juniors Round 3)

Goal Scorers:

Daniel Carriço at the 60th minute.
Daniel Carriço at the 68th minute.

Substitutions:

Tiago Pinto (Left-Back) replaces Vasco Campos at the 60th minute.
Bruno Matias (Forward) replaces Ricardo Nogueira at the 60th minute.
André Cacito (Striker) replaces Fábio Paim at the 75th minute.

Tiago Pinto (Left-Back) after substituting Vasco Campos, Tiago Pinto went to Left-Back and Rui Figueiredo repositioned himself at Righ-Back.
Bruno Matias replaced Ricardo Nogueira at Forward-Centre. Once André Cacito entered the game he moved to Foward-Centre and Bruno Matias repositioned himself at Right-Winger where Fábio Paim had been playing.

MOM (Man of the Match): Daniel Carriço.

Bookings:

Ricardo Nogueira received a Yellow Card at the 37th minute

Junior Championship after 3 games (270 minutes):

Rui Patricio, 270 minutes.
Daniel Carriço, 270 minutes.
Marco Lança, 270 minutes.
João Martins, 270 minutes.
João Gonçalves, 256 minutes.
Vasco Campos, 240 minutes.
Ricardo Nogueira, 240 minutes.
Fábio Paim, 236 minutes.
Alison, 236 minutes.
André Pires, 231 minutes.
Rui Figueiredo, 180 minutes.
Adrien Silva, 99 minutes.
Bruno Matias, 74 minutes.
Tiago Pinto, 30 minutes.
André Cacito, 29 minutes.
Vivaldo Arrais, 20 minutes.
André Santos, 19 minutes.

Top Scorers:

Daniel Carriço, 2 goals (in 270 minutes).
Bruno Matias, 1 goal (in 44 minutes).
Fábio Paim, 1 goal (in 161 minutes).
Ricardo Nogueira, 1 goal (in 180 minutes).

Bookings:

Marco Lança, 1 Yellow Card.
João Martins, 1 Yellow Card.
Ricardo Nogueira, 1 Yellow Card.

Some observations:

André Cacito is very likely to get more opportunities at Forward-Centre, he's clearly physically stronger, bigger and more impetuous than Ricardo Nogueira. Bruno Matias looks awkward at Nº9, he's more of a "Left-Forward" than an outright striker or winger.

Vasco Campos is the contention Full-Back and Rui Figueiredo is the Attacking Full-Back. Interesting player Rui, recently turned 17 and he's got a lot of pace, he goes forward quite well. Rui has to improve his ball reception (too much bounce) and when he crosses the ball backwards to his keeper he has to be more carefull otherwise he'll be making assists for the opposite team.

When there's a deadball situation only 2 players stay in the midfield line to stop a potential counter, it was always Rui Figueiredo and Vasco Campos and eventually Rui and Tiago Pinto.

Had Carriço not scored then my MOM would have been João Martins without a doubt, he's clearly better than last year and he does everything, attacks, defends, tackles, passes, lateralizes the game, closes out the left and right flank and seems to have endless energy. This kid could play a few minutes here and there for the 1st Team and not look out of place at all.

Alison's aerobic endurance is questionable.

Fábio Paim was by far the player that received the most fouls. I thought he played well, he does not hold on to the ball anywhere near as much as he did before.

Paim and Alison switched flanks often and João Gonçalves and André Pires also switched positions during the game.

Daniel Carriço

Alison

João Martins

André