One big surprise, among several, in Wednesday's training | OneFootball

After the tribute to Jorge Costa paid by the FC Porto squad on Wednesday morning, the national champions returned to work at Olival in a session marked by several new developments.

The model of permanent integration between the first team and the B team, defined by the Dragons for this season, was applied once again. Francesco Farioli called up several players from the secondary squad for the morning training session, both to make up for some absences, such as Cláudio Ramos due to injury, and to take part in specific drills.

Most of the young players called up had already worked with the Italian coach during pre-season. Gonçalo Ribeiro, Luís Gomes, Tiago Silva, Bernardo Lima, Mateus Mide, Duarte Cunha and Eduardo Ferreira are among those players. Even so, one name stood out in particular in Wednesday’s training session: Mame Niang.

The Senegalese forward was signed from HamKam to strengthen the B team and ended up being called up by Farioli, who thus had the chance to take a closer look at the 20-year-old, seen as a prospect for FC Porto’s future. Niang’s presence comes at a time when Samu is still recovering from an injury and the club is looking in the market for another solution for the centre-forward position.

FC Porto begin the defence of their title next Sunday against Alverca at the Estádio do Dragão, in the opening round of the league.

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