Goals and highlights: Sporting Lisboa 4-0 Besiktas in UEFA Champions League 2021

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In Lisbon, Sporting defeated Besiktas in a resounding manner, on the fourth matchday of the Champions League 2021-2022 group stage.

With this result, the Portuguese team has 6 points and is in second place in Group B, while the Turks are in fourth place with no points.

A two-minute rest period is added.

Sporting Lisbon makes its latest moves: Jovane Cabral and Rúben Vinagren take the place of Pedro Gonçalves and Matheus Reis.

Sporting Lisbon makes its latest moves: Jovane Cabral and Rúben Vinagre take the place of Pedro Gonçalves and Matheus Reis.

This was the fourth goal for the home team. 

¿QUIÉN LOS DETIENE? 🥵

Pablo Sarabia apareció para poner EL CUARTO en la goleada de los portugueses. 🟢⚪

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Sporting makes more changes: Daniel Bragança and Nuno Santos replace Joäo Dias and Matheus Nunes.

Sporting makes more changes: Daniel Bragança and Nuno Santos replace Joäo Dias and Matheus Nunes.

Pablo Sarabia takes advantage of a series of rebounds and pushes the ball in to extend the Portuguese team's lead.

This was Sporting's third goal.  

LA GOLEADA LUSITANA 👊🏻

Paulinho apareció con un zurdazo para poner el tercero del partido en la cancha del José Alvalade. 🏟️

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Besiktas players Josef Souza and Cyle Larin become the first cautions of the match.

In this way, Pedro Gonçalves scored his brace and increased Sporting's lead. 

LLEGÓ EL SEGUNDO ✌🏻🔥

Pedro Gonçalves definió perfecto para conseguir su doblete en el compromiso.⚽⚽

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Besiktas moves its lineup for the first time in the match: Alex Teixeira replaces Francisco Montero.

Sporting Lisbon and Besiktas are back in action.

With this much from Pedro Gonçalves, Sporting Lisboa opened the scoreboard. 

SE ADELANTAN LOS LOCALES 🟢⚪

Desde los once pasos, Pedro Gonçalves definió de derecha para poner adelante en el marcador a los portugueses.

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With no problems, Sporting is taking advantage of its home condition to defeat Besiktas 3-0 momentarily.

Ricardo Esgaio passes to Paulinho, who drives a couple of meters and then shoots a powerful, low shot to extend the home team's lead.

Matheus Nunes passes to Pedro Gonçalves, who scores his brace and increases the lead for the Lisbon team with a powerful shot. 

Pedro Gonçalves scores a well-placed goal to put the home side ahead on the scoreboard.

Penalty! Rıdvan Yılmaz brings down Pedro Gonçalves inside the box, so Sporting will have a chance to take the lead.

Cyle Larin stings for space inside the box, but misses a good chance for Besiktas.

Sporting Lisbon makes its first substitution of the match: Pedro Porro can no longer play and is replaced by Ricardo Esgaio.

Ersin Destanoğlu! The visiting goalkeeper looks alert and keeps out Paulinho's shot with his feet. The home side have already generated a couple of very dangerous chances.

Metal! Pablo Sarabia makes a great pass to Paulinho, who crashes his shot against the crossbar. Sporting Lisbon's first goal was very close to arriving.

The ball is rolling in Lisbon! Sporting and Besiktas are already facing each other.

The Lisbon team finishes its training and heads to the dressing room to face Besiktas in a few minutes.

If they win tonight, they will take an important step in their quest to stay in European competitions.

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— Sporting Clube de Portugal 🏆 (@Sporting_CP) November 3, 2021

Mert Günok; Salih Uçan, Oğuzhan Özyakup, Gökhan Töre, Can Bozdogan, Fabrice N'Sakala, Serdar Saatçı, Umut Meraş & Alex Teixeira.

André Paulo, João Virginia GK, Bruno Tabata, Jovane Cabral, Nuno Santos, Luís Neto, Manuel Ugarte, Rúben Vinagre, Ricardo Esgaio & Daniel Bragança.

On the previous matchday, at Vodafone Park, the Turks lost 1-4 to the Portuguese; Sebastian Coates (2), Pablo Sarabia and Joao Dias scored for Sporting Lisbon, while Cyle Larin scored for Besiktas.

Ersin Destanoğlu; Rıdvan Yılmaz, Francisco Montero, Souza, Atiba Hutchinson (C), Mehmet Topal, Cyle Larin, Rachid Ghezzal, Necip Uysal, Welinton & Kenan Karaman.

Antonio Adán; Matheus Reis, Zouhair Feddal, Sebastián Coates (C), João Palhinha, Matheus Nunes, Pablo Sarabia, Paulinho, Pedro Porro, Gonçalo Inácio & Pedro Gonçalves.

In just under an hour, Sporting and Besiktas will face each other in Lisbon; even though the two teams are not the favorites in their group to reach the next round of the Champions League, this match will be very important, as this result could define which club will be placed in third place, which would give them a place in the Europa League playoff.

In a few moments we will share with you the starting Sporting Lisboa vs Besiktas live, as well as the latest information from José Alvalade Stadium. Stay tuned for up-to-the-minute live coverage of the match on VAVEL.

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A. Adán; G. Inácio, S. Coates, Z. Feddal, P. Porro, M. Luiz, J. Palhinha, M. Reis, P. Gonçalves, Paulinho and P. Sarabia.

E. Destanoglu; C. Meras, F. Montero, D. Vida, V. Rosier, N. Uysal, A. Hutchinson, C. Larin, A. Teixeira, R. Ghezzal and M. Batshuayi.

The central referee for this match will be Sergei Karasev; Igor Demeshko, first line; Maksim Gavrilin, second assistant; Kirill Levnikov, fourth official; Juan Martínez Munuera, VAR; and Bartosz Frankowski, AVAR.

Meanwhile, the Belgian team coached by Sergen Yalçın is in fourth place without accumulating any points, having lost three games; they have scored 2 goals and conceded 8.

The Portuguese team led by Rúben Amorim is in third place with 3 points, after one win and two defeats; it has scored 5 goals and conceded 7.

This Wednesday afternoon, in Portugal, Sporting Lisboa and Besiktas will face each other for the second time in the current competition; both want to close the gap to continue aspiring to qualify to the next round or -at least- to stay in third place in the sector to advance to the Europa League play-offs.

It should be recalled that these two teams are in the third group, together with Ajax (Netherlands) and Borussia Dortmund (Germany).

The current edition of the Champions League, which kicked off several weeks ago, is the 67th in history. This week, the fourth week of the group stage is underway.

Now, 32 teams are competing, divided into eight groups; after the six rounds, the first two places in each group will advance to the round of 16, the third places will qualify for a UEFA Europa League playoff and the fourth places will be eliminated from any European international cup.

My name is Alan Rodriguez and I’ll be your host for this game. We will provide you with pre-game analysis, score updates, and news as it happens live here on VAVEL.