João de Deus happy with his side's performance despite missing out on the points

His side might have come away empty handed from Sunday's hosting of Penafiel, but João de Deus was not completely displeased with the performance.

"If you put the result to one side, then I would say we played well. Although we were missing a bit of maturity and experience at times", said the Sporting CP B coach in an interview at the final whistle, adding his analysis of the encounter: "We let a goal in from a dead ball situation which we had been working a lot on in training, so we are feeling a bit frustrated. Both halves were essentially the same, with Penafiel better in the opening 10 minutes. We showed touches of quality in the first-half and had chances on goal which we missed through a bit of immaturity. There is no getting around it, this is an under-23 team."