Footballers Ivan Marcano, Danny Namaso and Evanilson, all injured, as well as the suspended Pepe, missed this Monday the Porto squad that made its debut in Group H of the Champions League against the Ukrainian Shakhtar.
According to a note published on the Blaugrana’s website, coach Sergio Conceiço called up 22 players for Tuesday’s game, ignoring four of the five absences noted during a 15-minute training session open to journalists this morning at the Olival Stadium.
While Englishman Danny Namaso was recovering from a left thigh injury, Spaniard Ivan Marcano and Brazilian Evanilson suffered torn right knee ligaments and sprained left knee ligaments respectively during Porto’s win at Porto Stadium on Friday. Estrela da Amadora Stadium (1-0) in the fifth round of the First Portuguese League.
The clinical report also includes Brazilian Gabriel Veron, who was not included in the list of players registered as national runners-up in the first stage of the Champions.
Brazilian Pepe will be disqualified before the match with the champion of Ukraine after being sent off against the Italian Inter (0:0) in March in the return match of the 1/8 finals of the 2022/23 season tournament. led to Porto’s relegation.
The Blue and White, winners of the competition in the 1986/87 and 2003/04 seasons, traveled this afternoon to Hamburg, Germany, where Shakhtar Donetsk will host their international matches this season due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Starting at 19:45 local time (18:45 in Lisbon), coach Sergio Conceiço and the player to be named will address a press conference at the Volksparkstadion, the stage of Tuesday’s match, which kicks off at 20:00 Portuguese time. The referee was Italian Davide Massa.
Porto will begin their 27th and fourth consecutive presence in the Champions League, with the first round of Group H also including hosting Spain’s Barcelona internationals Joao Cancelo and Joao Felix, the Belgians from Antwerp. .
The first stage of the 69th major European club tournament will last until December 12 and 13 and will determine the top two in each “group” for “eighth place”, with the final scheduled for June 1, 2024. at Wembley Stadium in London.
List of 22 players called up:
– Goalkeepers: Diogo Costa and Claudio Ramos.
– Defence: Joao Mario, Jorge Sanchez, David Carmo, Fabio Cardoso, Pepe, Zaido and Wendell.
– Midfielders: Marko Grujic, Alan Varela, Steven Eustaquio, Nico Gonzalez, Romario Baro, Ivan Jaime and Andre Franco.
– Forwards: Galeno, Gonçalo Borges, Francisco Conceição, Mehdi Taremi, Tony Martinez and Fran Navarro.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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