Rui Borges wants a goal-shy striker to fill Pote’s spot at Sporting | OneFootball

Rui Borges confirmed that he has called up Lucas Anjos for Sporting - Kairat and that he can play in Pote's position

With some doubts surrounding the use of Pedro Gonçalves in Sporting - Kairat, Rui Borges chose to call up Lucas Anjos, a player from the B team of Alvalade Club - still without goals in four games this season -, to be an option for the lions.

"If Pote doesn't play there are other solutions, but he is called up. There's Maxi, Fotis, Alisson, Lucas Anjos, who is also called up. There are several solutions", confirmed the coach of the greens and whites to the journalists present at the press conference.

Moreover, given the wave of injuries that Sporting is going through, Rui Borges also called Rayan Lucas and Rodrigo Ribeiro to the last training before the debut in the Champions League, who can also be included in the lions' call for the millionaire competition.

The Sporting returns to the field on Thursday, September 18, against Kairat Almaty. The match against the team led by Rafael Urazbakhtin, valid for the first round of the Champions League, will be played at José Alvalade Stadium and is scheduled to kick off at 20:00.

In the league phase of the millionaire competition, remember, Sporting will face, not only Kairat, but also Naples (on October 1, at Diego Armando Maradona Stadium), Marseille (on October 22, at Alvalade), Juventus (on November 4, at Juventus Stadium), Club Brugge (on November 26, at Alvalade), Bayern Munich (on December 9, at Allianz Arena), PSG (on January 20, at Alvalade) and, finally, Athletic Bilbao (on January 28, at San Mamés).

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