Rui Borges under strain! Could miss several for Sporting - Santa Clara | OneFootball

The League has confirmed that Sporting will kick off the 28th round, hosting Santa Clara at Alvalade on the 3rd, Friday, at 8:30 PM. Rui Borges' team thus gains an extra day of preparation for the game against Arsenal, in the Champions League quarter-finals, scheduled for April 7th at 8:00 PM, although there may be squad limitations due to international commitments.

Several players will arrive just the day before the match. Rui Silva, Gonçalo Inácio, Pedro Gonçalves, and Francisco Trincão will play for the National Team against the United States on April 1st, and are expected to return to Lisbon only the following day. Zeno Debast is in a similar situation, participating in Belgium's tour with matches against the United States and Mexico.

There are also international players from the Alvalade Club with matches on March 31st, such as Ousmane Diomande, Maxi Araújo, Georgios Vagiannidis, and Iván Fresneda, but they compete on European soil, which reduces the impact of travel.

Available to work under Rui Borges' orders in Alcochete in the coming days are only the following: João Virgínia, Diego Callai, Eduardo Quaresma, Ricardo Mangas, Hidemasa Morita, Daniel Bragança, Geny Catamo, and Souleymane Faye.

Sporting will then return to the field on April 3rd, Friday, against Santa Clara. The match, part of the 28th round of the Liga Portugal Betclic, against the team led by Petit, will be played at the José Alvalade Stadium at 8:30 PM.

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