Rui Borges forced to call up fresh faces to cover six Sporting injuries | OneFootball

Rui Borges returned to lead a Sporting training session, after four days off granted to the green and white squad. The green and white coach is dealing with several absences from the main team, due to injuries and the FIFA international break.

Rui Borges is currently without 13 first-team players, who are representing their national teams. They are: Rui Silva, Francisco Trincão, Gonçalo Inácio (Portugal), Geovany Quenda (Portugal U21), Rodrigo Ribeiro (Portugal U20), Maxi Araújo (Uruguay), Luis Suárez (Colombia), Giorgi Kochorashvili (Georgia), Georgios Vagiannidis (Greece), Geny Catamo (Mozambique), Morten Hjulmand (Denmark), Ousmane Diomande (Ivory Coast), and Iván Fresneda (Spain U21).

In addition to this group, there are six injured players. João Simões is the most recent, after being released from the U21 National Team. Furthermore, Nuno Santos, Daniel Bragança, Zeno Debast, Pedro Gonçalves, and Fotis Ioannidis are also unavailable due to physical problems.

To make up for the large number of absences in the main Sporting squad, Rui Borges was forced to call up youngsters from the club’s academy. The chosen ones were Bruno Ramos, Rômulo Júnior (defenders), Samuel Justo, Kauã Oliveira, Ivanildo Mendes (midfielders), Rafael Nel, Chris Grombahi, and Lucas Anjos (forwards).

Rui Borges is preparing, with a reduced squad, for Sporting’s next match. The Lions will face Marinhense, for the Portuguese Cup, on November 22. The green and white team will return to training on the morning of next Friday, November 14.

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