Focusing on Famalicão v Sporting, Rui Borges set for some fresh faces | OneFootball

As he begins preparations for the match against Famalicão, Rui Borges introduced some new developments upon Sporting’s return.

With the first international break underway, several national teams, including Sporting, have suffered a significant reduction in their current squads, as many players are away on international duty. Faced with the absence of key players, Rui Borges made a point of calling up seven young players for today’s training session.

In the training session held at the Cristiano Ronaldo Academy on the morning of Thursday, September 4th, the coach from Mirandela, due to the lack of players—especially those called up to the National Team—invited seven youth players from the academy to observe and see how they integrated into the first team’s training.

Thus, in the first training sessions preparing for the visit to Famalicão—a match that will mark Sporting’s return to competition after the defeat against Porto—Rui Borges had the presence of defenders Bruno Ramos, José Silva, and Rodrigo Dias. For the midfield, the Sporting coach called up Rafael Besugo and Samuel Justo. In attack, the northerner observed the progress of Lucas Anjos and Rafael Nel.

It is worth noting that the group of seven players called up by Rui Borges are important members of the Sporting B squad, managed by João Gião. This team, in the current season, returned to the national second division after several years playing in the Campeonato de Portugal and Liga 3. So far, the young lions have been putting in a solid campaign in Liga Portugal Meu Super.

It should also be remembered that, in addition to the five injured players—namely Diomande, Maxi Araújo, Nuno Santos, Morita, and Daniel Bragança—Rui Borges was also without internationals Rui Silva, Gonçalo Inácio, Pedro Gonçalves, Francisco Trincão, Geovany Quenda, Rodrigo Ribeiro, João Simões, Morten Hjulmand, Zeno Debast, and other members of the Sporting squad. It should be recalled that Roberto Martínez ‘opened’ the door to Ricardo Mangas.

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