http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=419618 Paulo Bento: "Sporting Deserved More" 19/09/2007 23:24 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sporting Clube's straight-faced Coach Paulo Bento was understandably unhappy in the wake of the narrow home defeat to ex-Sporting star Cristiano Ronaldo's Manchester United at the Jose Alvalade stadium… "I really don't consider it [the 0-1 final score] a just result; I think that we deserved at least a draw. Manchester [United] converted the first great chance they had on our goal. It doesn't seem a fair result, but in football efficiency is a determining factor and more so in the Champions League", explained the tactician. Paulo Bento went on to argue that Sporting had "the control of the match in the first half; the best chances were ours and we played the game the way we had planned beforehand… but in a momentary lapse we lost the ball in Manchester's midfield and had difficulty reorganising, letting Ronaldo come through a gap we should have plugged." Paulo Bento went on to explain the positive reaction of the Alvalade faithful to the return of prodigal sons Cristiano Ronaldo and Nani as "a question of thanks and empathy with the players concerned given their service and dedication to Sporting in other seasons", something which was reciprocated by Ronaldo's quasi-apologetic body language after doing his duty and scoring against his ex-club. http://www.goal.com/en/Articolo.aspx?ContenutoId=419596 Liedson: "Van der Sar Made The Difference" 19/09/2007 23:08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ According to Sporting Clube's Brazilian marksman the main reason that the debut Champions League 2007-8 match at Lisbon's Jose Alvalade stadium didn't have a different winner was the man between the Red Devil sticks… The Sporting number 31 was frustrated by the excellent performance by Edwin Van der Saar who he felt avoided Manchester United walking off with a defeat. "He [Van der Sar] made two great saves tonight that stopped us from enjoying a completely different result", argued the Levezinho (Light One) in the aftermath. "We knew that it was going to be a tough match beforehand due to the high quality of the adversary but our team fought right to the end and everybody deserves credit for their attitude", added the player who is currently weighing up the pros and cons of joining Deco and Pepe in choosing Portugal over Brazil at national level. "To lose points at home always makes things more difficult, but there are still five more games ahead of us so we can tot it all up at the end, not make judgements now", added the man who's averaged a goal every two games for the Lisbon Leoes (Lions) since arriving from Corinthians in 2003. --

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