Check alert. Rafael Leão is right low and Nuno Tavares worries

Som alarms in the main selection of Portugal, mere 48 hours after Jorge Jesus presented the list of 28 players summoned for the last two days of the League of Nations group phase, which include games against Denmark (on November 14, Braga Municipal Stadium) and Wales (three days later, at Cardiff City Stadium.

This is because Nuno Tavares presented muscular complaints this Sunday, so Gennaro Gattuso had no choice but to replace him with Alfonso Pedrazza, to the interval of the one that was the ‘poster head’ meeting of the 11th Serie A journey, which put, face to face, Napoli and Lazio, at Diego Armando Maradona Stadium.

The left side will have to be re-evaluated by the clinical department of Roman training, but at the moment, there is no guarantee that it will actually be part of the batch of footballers who, on Monday, will perform in the Football City, in Oeiras, to start the internship of the team of quinas.

As for the game itself, it ended up tied to a ball, on account of a goal scored by Davide Frattesi, at 28 minutes, and a self-wind of... Alfonso Pedrazza, mere three minutes after entering the field, to face Nuno Tavares' injury, trying to intercept a crossing of Noa Lang.

However, the Portuguese representation in this always ‘scalante’ Classic of Italian football did not stop here. This is because, even in the course of the first half, the coach of the visitor set brought in Diogo Leite, following another physical setback, in this case, by Josip Sutalo.

Rafael Leo is right low

However, the bad news doesn't stop here. This is because, also this Sunday, Galatasaray announced, in the form of a communiqué issued through official platforms, the result of the examinations to which Rafael Leão submitted, who on the eve had abandoned the victory over Amedspor, by 4-3, in clear physical discomfort.

“ After an injury that forced him to abandon the lawn during the game against Amedspor, counting on the 11th day of the Turkish championship, our player Rafael Leão was submitted today to an MRI at Maslak Alibadem, a hospital that sponsors us. The results revealed severe distension, with hemorrhage in the muscle group of the posterior aspect of the right thigh. The athlete's treatment has already been started ", said.

The advanced graduate at Sporting, remember, had scored the goal that paved the way for the triumph of history formation based in Istanbul, just at the seventh minute. Alban Lafont (in the goal itself), Aleksey Batrakov and Baris Yilmaz marked the others, while on the other side of the ‘barricade’, the answer emerged by Dia Saba, Gift Orban and Yira Sor.

The Called List of Jorge Jesus

Network guard: Diogo Costa, Rui Silva and Samuel Soares;

Defences: Diogo Dalot, Alberto Costa, Reuben Dias, Tomás Araújo, Renato Veiga, António Silva, João Cancelo and Nuno Tavares;

Medium: João Palhinha, Reuben Neves, Mateus Fernandes, Vitinha, João Neves and Bernardo Silva;

Advanced: Pedro Neto, Francisco Trincão, Carlos Forbs, Rafael Leão, Geovany Quenda, Bruno Fernandes, João Félix, Rodrigo Mora, Gonçalo Ramos, Gustavo Varela and Fábio Silva.