Update on Rui Silva’s injury at Sporting | OneFootball

Rui Silva remains one of the main uncertainties for Sporting in Rui Borges' options for the official debut of the lions in the Champions League, against Kairat, next Thursday, September 18. After missing the trip to Famalicão's stronghold, the goalkeeper's presence in the millionaire competition is still not certain.

Although the reason that kept him away from the fifth round of the Liga Portugal Betclic is not serious - a trauma to the left hand-, the Portuguese goalkeeper will have to be reassessed on the return of the greens and whites to work, something that only happens on Tuesday, September 16, two days before the match against the Kazakhs.

Even so, the newspaper A Bola writes that the possibility of Rui Silva returning to Rui Borges' options is not completely ruled out, since it is not a serious injury. Even so, Sporting is not in a hurry to recover the goalkeeper for this match, which is not considered of high difficulty.

For this reason, the lions' performance unit prefers to evaluate the player on a day-to-day basis in Alcochete, and the use of Sporting's 'number 1' will only happen if there is no possibility of the problem being aggravated.

The Sporting will be back on the field on Thursday, September 18, against Kairat Almaty. The match against the team led by Rafael Urazbakhtin, valid for the first round of the Champions League, will be played at José Alvalade Stadium and is scheduled to kick off at 8:00 pm.

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