Farioli calls up five B team youngsters with five injured missing | OneFootball

The FC Porto first team continued, late Friday morning, their preparations for the 23rd round of the Primeira Liga against Rio Ave, a match that kicks off at 8:30 pm (Portugal mainland time) next Sunday at Estádio do Dragão.

In this session, Francesco Farioli once again could not count on five players on the pitch at the Jorge Costa Training and Sports Development Center in Olival; their names remain on the blue and white medical report and they are ‘out of the running’ for the match against the Vila do Conde side.

These players are Nehuén Pérez and Jakub Kiwior (both in restricted training), Martim Fernandes (alternating between the treatment room and the gym), Samu Aghehowa (under post-operative observation), and Luuk de Jong (who again only underwent treatments).

Not all the news is negative: the Italian coach can once again count on Francisco Moura, who missed the 0-1 away win at Nacional last weekend after serving a suspension for accumulating his fifth yellow card against Sporting.

Five B team players in training

To make up for these absences, Francesco Farioli once again turned to FC Porto’s B team, promoting the young Gabriel Brás, Luís Gomes, António Ribeiro, André Oliveira, and Tiago Andrade, who trained once again with the ‘seniors’.

The main change compared to the previous day was António Ribeiro, a 17-year-old central defender, who joined the senior squad in a direct swap with Dinis Rodrigues, a 21-year-old right-back, who this time worked under João Brandão’s guidance in preparation for the match against Paços de Ferreira.

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