Nuno Santos set for return, Sporting fans have reasons to smile | OneFootball

Nuno Santos, from Sporting, hasn’t played for almost a year, but the Lions are close to receiving good news again.

Nuno Santos is expected to be available for Rui Borges’ selection by the beginning of October. The left winger for Sporting suffered a serious injury to his right knee at the start of the 2024/25 season, and since then has been away from the pitch, recovering from that moment – he’s not the only Lion close to returning.

Initially, it was estimated that Nuno Santos might be fit to return to the pitch at the end of last season, and perhaps even help the team in the Portuguese Cup final. However, his recovery proved to be more complicated, and after some ups and downs, his return is now on the horizon.

Nuno Santos was injured on October 26, 2024, and according to the newspaper A Bola, with his recovery on track—which has been the case in recent months—Sporting’s left winger will be ready to train intensively and play at the beginning of October, that is, in about a month.

It’s worth remembering that this is the third time in the 30-year-old player’s career that he has suffered a serious injury to his right knee. Nuno Santos had already suffered a rupture of the patellar tendon in that part of his body in 2015, when he played for Benfica, and again in 2018, when he was with Rio Ave.

For this reason, Sporting’s medical staff have been extra careful with the 30-year-old player. The green and white technical team does not want the Lions’ left winger to suffer any kind of relapse, especially since he is a repeat case, so they want to make sure that Nuno Santos will be 100% ready when he returns to the pitch.

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