Pote denied chance to break Sporting’s Champions League record | OneFootball

Pedro Gonçalves is at risk of missing the Sporting - Kairat match and, therefore, being 'prevented' - at least for now - from becoming the top scorer for the Alvalade Club in the Champions League, a feat he is aiming for in this edition. The player missed the final training session of the lions before the first matchday of the prestigious competition.

With the first 15 minutes of open training, Pote's absence was noticeable, as he is undergoing restricted training in the gym just one day before the lions' debut in the prestigious competition. Besides the 'number 8', Rui Silva, Ousmane Diomande, Geny Catamo, Nuno Santos, and Daniel Bragança are also absent.

The truth is that the player had left the match against Famalicão last Saturday with a knock, in which he ended up being the man of the match, with a goal and an assist. Now, there remain some doubts about his recovery in time to be in the starting eleven of the lions against the Kazakhs.

Sporting returns to the field on Thursday, September 18, against Kairat Almaty. The match against the team led by Rafael Urazbakhtin, valid for the first matchday of the Champions League, will be played at Estádio José Alvalade and is scheduled to kick off at 20:00.

In the league phase of the prestigious competition, it should be noted that Sporting will face not only Kairat (which is without a goalkeeper) but also Napoli (on October 1, at Diego Armando Maradona Stadium), Marseille (on October 22, at Alvalade), Juventus (on November 4, at Juventus Stadium), Club Brugge (on November 26, at Alvalade), Bayern Munich (on December 9, at Allianz Arena), PSG (on January 20, at Alvalade), and finally, Athletic Bilbao (on January 28, at San Mamés).

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