«Little star? Only if it's my grandfather, thank God. We are the team with the most attacks and goals scored (in the League), it is natural that at any moment we score a goal, whether in the first or last minute.” He was This is what Sporting's coach, Rui Borges, responded last night when asked by Sporting's "little star"who has, in recent games (not only in the League, but also in the Champions League, against PSG and Athletic Bilbao), achieved victories and points beyond the 90th minute. The fact is that, for the third round in a row and always with a goal from Luis Suárez, Sporting managed to rescue points beyond the 90th minute in this edition of the League. The Colombian's goal, on top of the penalty saved by Diogo Costa, avoided the defeat of the lions at the Estádio do Dragão, where they left four points behind the leader FC Porto, which confirms the advantage in the direct confrontation in case of equality on points. (see classification). Now, Suárez had already been decisive in added time in the two previous rounds, against Nacional and Arouca, changing the result from a draw to a victory for Sporting, who had achieved five points after the 90th minute in the last three rounds of the League. Crucial, not only to keep the fight for the title alive, but also to avoid any closer ties with Benfica. And regarding this recent record of lions, the analysis of More football the 21 rounds already played confirms: among the so-called big three, it is Sporting who has the advantage beyond the 90th minute. The current two-time national champion has a balance of five points gained from goals in added time (seven won, two lost)at which point the FC Porto has already let two points slip (precisely with Monday's draw in the classic). THE Benfica has already let four points fly in the total balance in extra time (two won, six lost). It's true that, for Sporting, the extra minutes even started to be bitter when a goal changed a result: it was like that when Zalazar (Sp. Braga) equalized in Alvalade at 90+7m. Afterwards, and in addition to the last three rounds, the lion managed to achieve victory in that period in the Azores, against Santa Clara, with a goal from Hjulmand (the game with the goal that came after a poorly taken corner). Benfica, who even won at Choupana in added time, had previously seen three victories slip away at Luz, drawing with Rio Ave, Santa Clara and Casa Pia in additional time. The points gained and lost by FC Porto, Sporting and Benfica after 90m): FC PORTO (-2): 21st Matchday: FC Porto-Sporting (1-1)Seko Fofana (76m); Luis Suárez (90+9m) _ SPORTING (+5): 8th Matchday: Sporting-Sp. Braga (1-1)Luis Suárez (18m); Rodrigo Zalazar (90+7m). 11th round: Santa Clara-Sporting (1-2)Vinícius Lopes (5m); Pedro Gonçalves (32m), Morten Hjulmand (90+4m) 19th round: Arouca-Sporting (1-2)Luis Suárez (35m, 90+6m); Barber (48m) 20th day: Sporting-National (2-1)Pedro Gonçalves (73m), Luis Suárez (90+6m); Alan Nuñez (76m) 21st Matchday: FC Porto-Sporting (1-1)Seko Fofana (76m); Luis Suárez (90+9m) _ BENFICA (-4): 1st Matchday: Benfica-Rio Ave (1-1)Sudakov (86m); André Luiz (90+1m) 5th Matchday: Benfica-Santa Clara (1-1)Pavlidis (59m); Vinícius Lopes (90+2m) 11th Matchday: Benfica-Casa Pia (2-2)Sudakov (17M), Pavlidis (60M); Tomás Araújo (66M, PB), Renato Nhaga (90+1M) 12th Matchday: Nacional-Benfica (1-2)Jesus Ramírez (60m); Prestian (89m), Pavlidis (90+4m) _ Sporting: one in every seven goals comes after the 90th minute In addition to the four goals scored after 90 minutes, which allowed them to score points, Sporting has had an additional desire to score in the second half. Although in games where they only cemented their victories, Sporting scored another four goals after the 90th minute. Pedro Gonçalves completed the 4-1 victory against Nacional (3rd round) at 90+2m, Fotis Ioannidis scored at 90+4m in the 3-0 home win against Moreirense (6th round), Geovany Quenda scored in the 3-0 success at Tondela (9th round) at 90+2m and Geny Catamo scored the rout against AVS, for 6-0 (14th round) at 90+3m. Benfica, in addition to Pavlidis' goal that gave the victory at Choupana, also has two more goals after the 90th minute, which only increased the numbers of two victories: Gianluca Prestianni's goal at 90+5m in the 3-0 victory against Tondela, in Luz (3rd round), the stage in which Franjo Ivanovic scored, at 90+2m, the last of the goals in the 5-0 rout against Arouca (9th round). FC Porto, on the other hand, did not have any goals scored beyond the 90th minute. The closest they came to that, making a difference in their favor, was in the two victories in the municipality of Guimarães: Alan Varela's goal in the 85th minute against Vitória (0-1) and Deniz Gül's goal in the 88th minute at Moreira de Cónegos (1-2). With a “star” or not for Rui Borges, Sporting had belief and effectiveness until the end, with 14.5 percent of the 55 goals they have in the League (it is the most successful attack in the competition) coming after the 90th minute: in other words, around one in every seven goals are at that time. During this period, Benfica scored 6.81 percent of their 44 goals in the League.