FC Porto draw with Hibernian in pre-season opener | OneFootball

FC Porto kicked off their pre-season preparations with a 1-1 draw against Hibernian, who finished fifth in last season’s Scottish Premiership and will take part in the 2026/27 Conference League qualifying rounds, meaning they are further along in their pre-season.

Borja Sainz scored for the national champions, while Felix Passlack netted for the Scottish side. In the friendly, played over two 45-minute halves, FC Porto also had three goals disallowed — two for Borja Sainz and one for Victor Froholdt — while Alan Varela hit the crossbar and Gabri Veiga struck the post مباشرة from a direct free-kick.

The match was played behind closed doors at the Jorge Costa CTFD, and Francesco Farioli took the opportunity to assess the following players: Cláudio Ramos, João Costa, Alberto Costa, Martim Fernandes, Bednarek, Nehuén Pérez, Jakub Kiwior, Luís Gomes, Francisco Moura, Zaidu, Pablo Rosario, Alan Varela, Victor Froholdt, Rodrigo Mora, Gabri Veiga, Tiago Silva, João Teixeira, Borja Sainz, Oskar Pietuszewski, André Silva, Eduardo Ferreira, Pepê and William Gomes.

The medical report includes Vasco Sousa (modified training), André Miranda (treatment) and Samu (modified training). João Afonso, Gonçalo Ribeiro, Gabriel Brás, Prpic, Yoan Pereira, Bernardo Lima, Eirik Granaas, Mateus Mide and Duarte Cunha were left out as part of workload management.

The Porto squad have Sunday off and will travel to England on Monday afternoon at 2:30pm, where they will stay in a training camp at St George’s Park, home of the Three Lions national teams, until the 18th.

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