Farioli calls up B team quartet: Brás, Rodrigues, Pereira, Miranda | OneFootball

The FC Porto first team continued, late Thursday morning, their preparations for the 22nd round of the Primeira Liga, against Nacional, in a closed-door session at the Jorge Costa Training and Sports Development Center in Olival.

Italian coach Francesco Farioli once again had to deal with five absences, whose names remain on the medical report: Nehuén Pérez (treatment and restricted training), Luuk de Jong (treatment and gym work), Jakub Kiwior, Martim Fernandes, and Samu Aghehowa (all undergoing treatment).

The Argentine center-back, the Dutch forward, and the Spaniard all appear, due to the severity of their respective injuries, to be ruled out for the remainder of the current 2025/16 season. As for the Polish center-back and the Portuguese right-back, the prognosis points to a recovery within a few weeks.

Despite this, all of them are ‘out of the deck’ for the trip to Choupana, as are the suspended Francisco Moura – who received his fifth yellow card in the 1-1 draw with Sporting – and William Gomes – sent off directly in the 2-1 defeat against Casa Pia.

The Nacional-FC Porto match is scheduled to kick off at 3:30 p.m. (Portugal mainland time) next Sunday, with José Bessa officiating, assisted by Hugo Santos and Ângelo Carneiro; fourth official Fábio Melo; VAR João Bento; and AVAR Pedro Sousa.

Farioli promotes ‘swap of youngsters’

To make up for the various absences, Francesco Farioli once again turned to the B team, promoting Gabriel Brás (center-back, 21 years old), Dinis Rodrigues (right-back, 21 years old), Yoan Pereira (winger, 17 years old), and André Miranda (winger, 18 years old).

The first two had already trained with the ‘big boys’ the previous day, while Yoan Pereira and André Miranda came in to ‘replace’ João Teixeira (midfielder, 19 years old) and Gonçalo Sousa (forward, 19 years old), who returned to training under the guidance of B team coach João Brandão.

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