Geny Catamo is the first Mozambican to score in the Champions League

Another defeat

Geny Catamo was highlighted on Tuesday night (10). The Mozambican scored the first goal of the game between Club Bruges e Sporting CP and gave hope to a club suffering from bad luck and heartbreak. It was in vain: the Portuguese would end up losing and recording their second consecutive defeat in the Champions Leaguefourth in all competitions.

At 2 minutes, the green and white winger appeared in the area to gain the rebound, after a first shot from Maxi Araújowhich collided with the Belgian goal post. Geny Catamo he dominated the round and, with his left foot, shot into the back of the net. This goal made him the first Mozambican in history to score in Champions League.

The early goal set the Lions up for a first twenty minutes of quality, but the Sporting It lost its luster as the clock progressed. And the inevitable happened. In effect, the draw came in a misfortune of Eduardo Quaresma; the ball hit the leonine defender and betrayed it like that Franco Israel. 24 minutes of the meeting had been completed.

Furthermore, the Portuguese central defender, back in the eleven, would end up being substituted before the break, after a violent head collision. A successive accumulation of misfortunes, ending when at 84′ the Club Bruges completed the turnaround.

“We are in a bad phase”

After the meeting, Geny Catamo spoke into the microphones SportTV and appeared inconsolable, although hopeful for the near future. “I believe that in this game victory was within our reach. Now we can only change the chip and think about the championship. We need to pull ourselves together and focus. We are in a bad phase where everything happens to us”, he lamented.

The Mozambican wants to win again to reverse the crisis. “We have to start winning. In this game we felt we could do that, but, like I said, it’s a complicated phase. We have to focus on the next game“, these.

Geny Catamo referred to the meeting with the Boavista scheduled for Saturday (14), at 10:30 pm Mozambique. O Sporting hosts the checkered team in a match counting for the 14th round of the Portuguese League and it becomes imperative to return to victories.