Gent 3-1 Sporting CP: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 4 November 2010

Result

Gent 3-1 Sporting CP

Europa League · Thursday 4 November 2010, 18:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Gent 3-1 Sporting CP: match report

Gent beat Sporting CP 3-1 in the Europa League on Thursday 4 November 2010. It was 1-1 at half-time.

Tim Smolders opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Gent's goals came from Tim Smolders (7', penalty), Ibrahima Sory Conté I (79') and Shlomi Arbeitman (82'). Sporting CP scored through Carlos Saleiro (39').

Discipline: Gent received 2 yellow cards; Sporting CP received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Gent were 93rd on 4 points from 5 and Sporting CP 2nd on 18 points from 7. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Gent lined up in a 4-3-3 and Sporting CP in a 4-2-3-1.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Gent wins, 0 draws and 1 for Sporting CP.

Going into the match Gent's last five read L-D-L-W-L and Sporting CP's W-W-W-W-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 7'Penalty goal · Tim SmoldersGent · 1-0
  • 9'Yellow card · Abel FerreiraSporting CP
  • 26'Yellow card · Andre SantosSporting CP
  • 32'Yellow card · Marko SulerGent
  • 39'Goal · Carlos SaleiroSporting CP · 1-1
  • 78'Second yellow · Abel FerreiraSporting CP
  • 79'Goal · Ibrahima Sory Conté IGent · 2-1
  • 82'Goal · Shlomi ArbeitmanGent · 3-1
  • 90'Yellow card · Y. El GhanassyGent

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Gent 0, draws 0, Sporting CP 1.

Team news

Gent line-up (4-3-3)

Bojan Jorgacevic, Marko Šuler, Stef Wils, Mario Barić, Wallace, Tim Smolders, Bernd Thijs, Yassine El Ghanassy, Elimane Coulibaly, Stijn De Smet, Zlatan Ljubijankič

Sporting CP line-up (4-2-3-1)

Timo Hildebrand, Marco Torsiglieri, Evaldo, Cédric Soares, Nuno André Coelho, Alberto Zapater, André Santos, Yannick Djaló, Diogo Salomão, Carlos Saleiro, Abel Ferreira