Head-to-Head: Sporting CP vs Lask Linz

Sporting CP and Lask Linz have already produced a European exchange that changed direction quickly. Sporting CP won 2-1 in Lisbon on 3 October 2019, but Lask Linz answered with a 3-0 home victory in December and a 4-1 away win in October 2020. Lask therefore hold the stronger balance, while Sporting’s opening success keeps the pairing from looking entirely one-sided.

Past matches, Sporting CP vs Lask Linz

21 October 2026 League Stage - 3

Sporting CP

2 - 3

Lask Linz

Estádio da Luz
1 October 2020 Play-offs

Sporting CP

1 - 4

Lask Linz

Estádio da Luz
12 December 2019 Group Stage - 6

Lask Linz

3 - 0

Sporting CP

Linzer Stadion
3 October 2019 Group Stage - 2

Sporting CP

2 - 1

Lask Linz

Estádio da Luz

Match center

Sporting CP

2 - 3

21 October 2026

Lask Linz

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Starting eleven

Substitutes Sporting CP

1
G
55
D
28
F
58
F
9
F
7
F
21
M
31
F
4
M
13
D
73
M
50
D

Lask Linz Substitutes

D
21
F
7
D
6
M
23
F
29
D
3
F
45
G
39
M
18
G
33
F
8

Match events

45'

90'

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5'
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Luis Suárez Penalty
15'
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Christoph Lang Normal Goal (Asst: Kasper Jorgensen)
33'

Christoph Lang Yellow Card
45'

Sascha Horvath Yellow Card
52'

Tobias Schützenauer Lukas Jungwirth
63'
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Sasa Kalajdzic Normal Goal (Asst: Robert Ljubicic)
64'

Issa Doumbia Yellow Card
65'

João Simões Yellow Card
65'

Alessandro Schöpf Sascha Horvath
65'

Samuel Adeniran Christoph Lang
67'

Flávio Gonçalves João Simões
68'
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Krystof Danek Normal Goal (Asst: Samuel Adeniran)
72'

Sasa Kalajdzic Yellow Card
79'

Luís Guilherme Geny Catamo
79'

Jesse Derry Nestory Irankunda
80'

Fotis Ioannidis Issa Doumbia
83'

Moses Usor Sasa Kalajdzic
83'

Florian Flecker Kasper Jorgensen
89'
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Luis Suárez Normal Goal
89'

Tobias Schützenauer Yellow Card
90' +1

Krystof Danek Yellow Card

Stats for this game

Matchup Sporting CP VS Lask Linz

A sharp change in direction

The opening chapter favoured Sporting CP, who defeated Lask Linz 2-1 in the UEFA Europa League group stage on 3 October 2019. The margin was narrow and left the Austrian side within reach of an answer. Lask supplied that response at Linzer Stadion on 12 December, winning 3-0 and turning the balance towards their side before the teams met again.

Lask’s stronger reply

The next meeting, a Europa League play-off at the Estádio da Luz on 1 October 2020, reinforced Lask’s position. Their 4-1 victory showed that the earlier home win was not the only occasion on which they could separate themselves from Sporting CP. The sequence therefore contains both a Sporting success and two Lask wins, with no need to claim a permanent hierarchy beyond those scorelines. The lasting question is whether Sporting can restore the tighter margin of 2019, or whether Lask can carry their more forceful response into another setting.