Comments and predictions for Sporting Lisbon vs Kairat: A rain of goals
The match between Sporting Lisbon vs Kairat in the Champions League takes place at 2:00 a.m. on September 19. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest Sporting Lisbon vs Kairat team information
Coach Rui Borges – who switched from Amorim’s three-man defence to a four-man defence – could be without key centre-back Ousmane Diomande due to a muscle injury. If he misses out, he will join an injury list that already includes Nuno Santos, Daniel Braganca, Hidemasa Morita and Geny Catamo; goalkeeper Rui Silva is also doubtful.
Up front, Luis Suarez – the striker who was the top scorer in the Spanish Second Division – scored 4 goals for Colombia in the recent international break and will lead the attack in place of Viktor Gyokeres. He will be supported by Geovany Quenda (coming to Chelsea), Pote Goncalves and Francisco Trincao.
For Kairat, goalkeeper Aleksandr Zarutskiy and Temirlan Anarbekov are injured, while Georgian striker Giorgi Zaria could also be absent.
Dastan Satpaev – a 17-year-old striker who has already represented his country and scored three goals in qualifying – will continue to be given his chance, before joining Chelsea next summer. At 37, captain Alyaksandr Martynovich will be the experienced anchor of the visitors’ defence.
Latest expected lineup Sporting Lisbon vs Kairat
Sporting Lisbon:
Virginia; Fresneda, Inacio, Debast, Mangas; Hjulmand, Kochorashvili; Quenda, Trincao, Goncalves; Suarez
Kairat:
Kalmurza; Tapalov, Martynovich, Sorokin, Mata; Arad, Glazer; Gromyko, Jorginho, Satpayev; Edmilson
Latest football commentary Sporting Lisbon vs Kairat
Despite losing coach Ruben Amorim in the middle of the season, Sporting still managed to regain their spirit and successfully defend the Primeira Liga championship, winning two consecutive titles for the first time since 1954.
Overcoming Benfica in the title race made the Portuguese Cup final even more tense, where Sporting continued to beat their city rivals in a thrilling scenario.
Last season's Champions League campaign was also memorable, with a 4-1 win over Man City before Amorim left. However, the team were eliminated in the play-off round by Borussia Dortmund.
Now, entering their first full season under coach Rui Borges, Sporting have started well with four wins from five league games, including a 2-1 win over Famalicao last weekend.
However, Sporting still lacked steam in the big challenges: losing to Benfica in the Super Cup and falling 1-2 to Porto just before the international break. With PSG, Bayern, Juventus and Napoli to face in the League Phase, they cannot afford to drop points at home against Kairat, who are ranked 266th in the UEFA rankings.
A top eight finish is almost impossible, so Borges will be aiming for a play-off spot – meaning a win over Kairat is a must.
Kairat Almaty have just made history by becoming the second Kazakh team to qualify for the Champions League, after Astana a decade ago. Their previous best performance in Europe was the 2021/22 Europa Conference League group stage, with just two points from six games.
Last season, Kairat won their last four games to overtake Astana and win the domestic title, but still had a long way to go to secure a Champions League spot. They were unbeaten at home from the first qualifying round to the play-offs, keeping clean sheets in four of their last five games.
The most memorable was the match at Almaty Central Stadium when they eliminated Celtic – the one-time European champions. Despite having less than 1/3 of the ball and a 0-0 draw after two matches, Kairat still won 3-2 in a thrilling penalty shootout.
Coach Rafael Urazbakhtin, who led Kairat to their fourth domestic title, will have the honour of leading the team to face Real Madrid and Inter Milan in the League Phase.
In the Kazakhstan Premier League, they are top after 22 games, but Kairat have won just three of their last 16 European games and failed to score in half of them. A trip to Lisbon will therefore be a very difficult test.
Latest Sporting Lisbon vs Kairat score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Sporting Lisbon vs Kairatas follows:
- Sportsmole:Sporting Lisbon 2-0 Kairat
- WhoScore:Sporting Lisbon 3-1 Kairat
- Our newspaper predicts:Sporting Lisbon 3-0 Kairat
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