A double by Pedro Gonçalves who scored the second goal two minutes from the end, from a penalty, provided Sporting this Thursday the triumph before him Varzim (2-1) and qualification for the round of 16 of the Portugal Cup.
The SportingSeventeen times champion of the tournament, the last one three years ago, he did not have it easy against the penultimate classified of the Portuguese second division.
The technician Rubén Amorim had to turn to Gonçalves and the Spaniards Pablo Sarabia and Pedro Porro, regular starters who initially stayed on the bench and who jumped onto the field at game time.
The scoreboard did not move until after game time. Gonçalves, who replaced Cape Verdean Jovane Cabral in the 57th minute, opened the scoring eleven minutes later.
However, in 79 the Brazilian Eli equalized by transforming a penalty but in 88, also from eleven meters, Gonçalves scored again to give the victory to the Lisbon team in the duel played in the stadium Jose Alvalade.
The Varzim he ran out of options especially when, in added time, he had to play with ten players due to the expulsion of the Brazilian Murillo that he saw two yellow cards in just six minutes.
