Nuno Santos set for return, Sporting fans have reasons to smile | OneFootball

Nuno Santos, from Sporting, hasn't played for almost a year, but the lions are close to receiving good news.

Nuno Santos is expected to be back in Rui Borges' options by the beginning of October. The left winger of Sporting suffered a severe injury to his right knee at the start of the 2024/25 season and has been away from the fields since then, recovering from that moment - he is not the only lion close to returning.

Initially, it was estimated that Nuno Santos could be fit to return to the fields by the end of the last season, and perhaps even help the team in the Portuguese Cup final. The recovery proved to be more complicated, and after some advances and setbacks, the return is now on the horizon.

Nuno Santos was injured on October 26, 2024, and according to the newspaper A Bola, with the recovery on track, which has been happening in recent months, the left winger of Sporting will be ready to train intensively and play at the beginning of October, that is, in a month's time.

It is worth remembering that this is the third time in the 30-year-old player's career that he has suffered a serious injury to his right knee. Nuno Santos had already suffered a rupture of the patellar tendon in that part of the body in 2015, when he was playing for Benfica, and also in 2018, when he was representing Rio Ave.

Therefore, the medical staff of Sporting have been extra cautious with the 30-year-old player. The green and white technical team does not want the left winger of the lions to suffer any kind of relapse, especially being recurrent, so they want to ensure that Nuno Santos will be 100% ready when he returns to the fields.

Check out this great goal by Nuno Santos while playing for Sporting:

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