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0¹ GOAL!! A deep cross from BRANDT on the right was headed home by WATKINS at the near post. (1-0 Sporting) 2¹ BRANDT rattled a simple chance past the near post. 5¹ A great save prevented ZUBELDIA from scoring an exceptional goal. 5¹ NICO WILLIAMS beat ALONSO and fired the ball to WATKINS who toe-poked his effort wide. 7¹ WATKINS ran onto a wonderful ball from ZUBELDIA but toe-poked his shot wide of the goal. 11¹ An inswinging corner was turned into the arms of the 'keeper by NICO WILLIAMS. 17¹ GOAL!! Showing plenty of skill NICO WILLIAMS dribbled past KANNEMANN and fired the ball past CAMPAÑA. (2-0 Sporting) 28¹ BENEDETTO stormed through the Sporting defence but shot straight at the Sporting 'keeper. 42¹ A header from WATKINS was kicked off the line by PEZZELLA. 2² A shot from NICO WILLIAMS was smothered by CAMPAÑA. 6² A tame strike from PAVÓN bounced agonisingly wide. 6² PAVÓN headed over. 9² CERVI nodded the ball wide of the goal from just inside the area. 19² WATKINS snapped at an easy chance. 27² GOAL!! A wonderful dribble from WATKINS gave ZUBELDIA space on the left and NICO WILLIAMS poked in his pin-point pass. (3-0 Sporting) 28² A lovely pass from SOTTIL was lashed goalbound by BENEDETTO only for the 'keeper to block. 29² A accurate pass was collected by PAVÓN and his right foot effort flew narrowly wide. 35² The 'keeper managed to palm clear a wicked effort. 35² A penalty box meleé resulted in ALONSO knocking the ball wide. 37² A mix up in the Sporting defence enabled PAVÓN to hit the ball just beyond the far post. 39² ROSIER shot wide. 42² NICO WILLIAMS whacked a right foot shot wide from long range.

Sporting   League position: 4 Home league form: XLWW Overall league form: LXLWWXLW Formation: 4-3-3

Line-ups PAU LÓPEZ Sabata 8  1 7½ Martin CAMPAÑA (c)José DIOGO DALOT 8  2 6½ Valentin ROSIER JOÃO Pedro CANCELO 6  3 5½ Junior ALONSO Igor ZUBELDIA 7  4 6½ Franco CERVI Edmond TAPSOBA 7  5 7  Germán PEZZELLA(c) John STONES 6½ 6 6½ Walter KANNEMANN Martín ZUBIMENDI 7  7 7  Emiliano VECCHIO Julian BRANDT 7  8 6  Cristian PAVÓN (p)Ollie WATKINS 7  9 6½ Darío BENEDETTO(p) Jonas HOFMANN 7½ 10 6  Riccardo SOTTIL(f) (f)NICO WILLIAMS 7  11 7  Patrick CUTRONE John Pickford Manager Ezri KONSA    12    Maximiliano MEZA Aaron RAMSDALE    13 7  Aster VRANCKX Rasmus HØJLUND    14 6  Muamer SVRAKA GONÇALO Matias RAMOS    15    Gustavo BLANCO LESCHUK Ansgar KNAUFF    16    Henk DIJKHUIZEN

Independiente   League position: 12 Away league form: LOXL Overall league form: WLLOLXLO Formation: 4-3-3

Statistics

Sporting 3 Independiente 0 (Half-time: 2-0, Attendance: 51,302, Stadium: José Alvalade XXI, Referee: Jorge Monteiro Corroado 5½) Watkins 0¹, Nico Williams 17¹, Nico Williams 27² Scorers Substitutions Sent off Bookings Corners Fouls Offsides Shots on Shots off Total shots Shots saved Possession     CutroneóSvraka 0², VecchioóVranckx 3²         7 2 12 17 5 2 7 5 6 9 13 14 4 4 52% 48% ¶ Man of the match: Pau López Sabata ¶