Rui Borges suffers new injury blow before Sporting v Kairat 🟢🟡 | OneFootball

Breaking News: Pedro Gonçalves is not participating in Sporting's training session before the match against Kairat, which is valid for the first round of the Champions League. The player's absence is the main highlight regarding absences this morning at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy.

With the first 15 minutes of training open, Pote's absence was noticeable, as he is doing limited work 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, scoring a goal and providing an assist. Now, there are some doubts about his recovery in time to be in the starting eleven of the Lions against the Kazakhs.

Sporting will return to the field on Thursday, September 18, against Kairat Almaty. The match against the team led by Rafael Urazbakhtin, valid for the first round of the Champions League, will be played at Estádio José Alvalade with kickoff scheduled for 8:00 PM.

In the league phase of the prestigious competition, it should be noted, 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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