Africa-Press – Botswana. On Tuesday, FC Porto summoned 24 footballers for the trip to Club Brugge, in a match of the fifth round of group B of the Champions League, a state still deprived of defenders Pepe, injured, and João Mário, suspended.
If captain Pepe is the only athlete on the ‘dragons’ clinical report, due to a sprain in his left knee, João Mário fought off an injury to his right thigh on Saturday, but remains unavailable, after completing a series of three yellow cards in the competition.
The centre-back and right-back even missed FC Porto’s morning training session at Olival, in which Pepe underwent treatment, with João Mário carrying out specific work with Wilson Manafá, João Marcelo and Fernando Andrade, a trio that is not registered for the Liga dos Champions.
With the young Bernardo Folha and Gonçalo Borges integrated in the entourage, the ‘dragons’ traveled yesterday afternoon to Bruges, where, at 7:30 pm local time (6:30 pm in Angola), coach Sérgio Conceição and defender Fábio Cardoso project the meeting in a conference of press.
FC Porto, in second place, with six points, faces the surprising undefeated leader Club Brugge, with 10, already qualified for the ‘eighth’, at the Jan Breydel Stadium, in Bruges, Belgium, on the fifth and penultimate round of Group B of the main European club competition, with refereeing by Englishman Michael Oliver.
Later, at 21:00 local time (20:00 in Lisbon), Atlético de Madrid, third, with four points, face at home the red-lantern Bayer Leverkusen, with three, with Sérgio Conceição’s team already qualifying for the next stage if they beat the Belgian three-time champion and the Spaniards, of Portuguese international João Félix, do not beat the Germans.
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