At the end of the match against Arouca, Rúben Amorim speculated that Sporting refused the possibility of postponing the match, proposed by the League.
This is because, with this week’s decisive European away match – a draw on Tuesday with Eintracht Frankfurt opens the doors of the Champions League round of 16 to the lions -, the League has proposed to Sporting the postponement of the match with the Arouca, as you know A BOLA, SC Braga with Gil Vicente – Braga will decide the future in the Europa League on Thursday, with Malmo.
The idea was to give Portuguese clubs the opportunity to gain time and save effort for European challenges, given the importance of this journey for lions and minhoto and also for Portuguese football for the UEFA rankings.
Both Sporting and SC Braga talked to the League, studied the scenarios but with few dates available to play the following games, they chose to play the eleventh day on the days already defined.
