Sporting line up late friendly with Portuguese side before Strasbourg | OneFootball

Sporting will play a training match against Portimonense next Monday, before the warm-up game against Strasbourg. The session will take place behind closed doors, in the morning, in Lagos, serving as another test for Rui Borges to fine-tune the team before the end of the training camp in the Algarve.

After the 4-1 win over Celtic, the Lions are sticking to the usual plan from recent pre-seasons, making use of the day of a friendly to also play a training match. The clash with Portimonense will take place at Hotel Cascade, followed later in the early evening by the match against the French side at the Algarve Stadium, at 8:15 pm.

The match against the Algarve side should allow the Sporting coach to manage the squad’s workload and give more playing time to the athletes who have featured less. The idea is to head into the Strasbourg match with a smaller group ready to face a more demanding opponent.

Strasbourg finished last season’s Ligue 1 in eighth place and will be Sporting’s final opponent during the training camp. The match in question will serve to assess the team’s progress before the final stretch of preparations for the new season.

Once the training camp in the Algarve is over, the green-and-white delegation will return to Lisbon to continue working at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy. The Lions’ next commitment will be the Cinco Violinos Trophy, against Monaco, in a match scheduled for 25 July, at Alvalade.

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