Chris Smalling trains with FC Porto as absences persist | OneFootball

Chris Smalling trained with FC Porto on Thursday as the first team and B squad worked together, with numerous players still missing.

According to O Jogo, the 36-year-old England international centre-back took part a day after being unveiled as a signing.

João Costa, Nehuén Pérez, Martim Fernandes, Zaidu, Seko Fofana, Vasco Sousa, Gabri Veiga and André Miranda remain on the medical report and are training in a restricted capacity.

Francesco Farioli also remains without Diogo Costa (Portugal), Jan Bednarek, Jakub Kiwior and Oskar Pietuszewski (Poland), Victor Froholdt (Denmark), Inbeom Hwang (South Korea), Pablo Rosario (Dominican Republic), Santiago Gimenez (Mexico), João Afonso (Portugal under-21) and Dominik Prpic (Croatia under-21), all away on international duty.

Porto play a friendly against Deportivo at Riazor in A Coruña on Friday at 18:00.

Source: O Jogo

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