Without Pedro Gonçalves (injured), Geovany Quenda (injured), Geny Catamo (serving the Mozambique national team) and even without Nuno Santos (injured for over a year), Rui Borges will have to reformulate the starting eleven again, in Guimarães, the day after tomorrow. He had already done it against Santa Clara on Thursday and now, with Vitória, he will do it even more. It becomes possible that, for the first time, Luís Suárez and Fotis Ioannidis will play from the start. Without Diomande (Ivory Coast team), the defensive sector will have Eduardo Quaresma and Gonçalo Inácio as the men in the middle and, on the flanks, the Leonine coach has several options. Fresneda or Vagiannidis to the right and Matheus Reis, Ricardo Mangas and Maxi Araújo to the left. Given the recent fragility of the Brazilian who scored Santa Clara's first goal in the Portuguese Cup match and the Portuguese's lack of full confirmation, the Uruguayan will most likely return to the sidelines. This opens up a place behind Luis Suárez. The central midfielders should be Hjulmand and João Simões, as in Ponta Delgada and Munich, but in front of this duo there should be news. Maxi Araújo-Trincão and Alisson faced Santa Clara (18/12) and Catamo, Trincão and Maxi Araújo came against Aves SAD (13/12). Now there is no Catamo and, quite possibly, there will be no Maxi Araújo, who could retreat to the side. This leaves Trincão, Alisson and… Ioannidis. This should therefore be the trio behind Suárez, with the Greek playing on the left. So far, in the 17 games in which Rui Borges has put Fotis Ioannidis on the field, he has only cohabited with Luis Suárez for 208 minutes. About 13 percent of game time. But now, in Guimarães, against the 7th placed team in the League, Rui Borges will bet on the duo yet to debut. It was in the two games against Santa Clara that the Leonine coach was most committed to putting them together on the field, but never both as starters: 45 minutes in the League game (Suárez in the 90', Ioannidis coming in at half-time) and 44 for the Portuguese Cup (Suárez in the 120' and Ioannidis coming in at 66'). With both on the field, the Colombian scored two goals (Nápoles and Santa Clara) and the Greek scored two other goals (Alverca and Santa Clara). Now, given that Sporting's coach did not like the offensive production in Thursday's game, against Santa Clara, and wants greater force in the final third, the possibility of, for the first time, Suárez and Ioannidis starting in the same game is on the table. Despite the Hellenic's natural propensity to drop to the left, knowing in advance that the Mirandelenense coach does not want to change the 4x2x3x1 that he implemented this season, as it is in the process of consolidation and this has even produced positive effects in attacking terms, with the exception of the match against São Miguel, with constant positional changes and ruptures in short spaces that have been fundamental in dismantling the opposing defenses, especially when the opposing teams are presented in very large blocks. lows, it remains to be seen the real positions of both. In Guimarães it shouldn't happen like that, taking into account that Vitória at home is more extended, but Rui Borges is really betting on a victory. And indisputable.