Sporting's internationals are on fire, but Rui Borges may pay the price | OneFootball

With several Sporting internationals standing out for their respective national teams, Rui Borges has the chance to see his players return motivated for the next resumption of training at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy. With the next match scheduled for October 9 against Braga, Luis Suárez followed Maxi Araújo, Geny Catamo, Irankunda and Jesse Derry and joined the group of Lions players who have also scored during this break.

Overall, there are 17 green-and-white internationals who these days have reduced Rui Borges’ group to ten players. Only Kaique, Callai, Ibrahima Ba, Nuno Santos, Eduardo Quaresma, Zekri, Altimira, João Simões, Pedro Lima and Luis Guilherme are training at the Academy, with several B-team players also working with the coach.

Of the 17 called up, 10 have already had the chance to play minutes. In addition to the five scorers, Doumbia also featured, making his debut for Italy’s senior team — and he is expected to start in the next match; Vagiannidis and Ioannidis played for Greece; Zalazar featured for Uruguay and Rafael Nel came on in the Portugal Under-21 national team’s match.

That leaves only Rui Silva and Gonçalo Inácio (Portugal); Debast (Belgium); Fresneda, with his first call-up to Spain’s senior national team; Flávio Gonçalves and Eduardo Felicíssimo (Portugal Under-21s) and Silas Anderson (Denmark Under-21s), who have not yet had the chance to contribute in this international break.

Given the current moment for the Alvalade side, the entire club structure would be grateful if Sporting’s players return motivated for what remains of the season. Even so, and given the South Americans’ fixture schedules, it is almost certain that Maxi, Zalazar and Suárez will hardly be in condition to play in Braga on the 9th.

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