Reuben Dias and João Palhinha, punished, and Bernardo Silva, injured, were dismissed today from the internship of the Portuguese national team and do not follow the journey to Cardiff, for the fight with Wales, of the League of Football Nations.
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15/11/2026
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Rúben Dias and João Palhinha, punished, and Bernardo Silva, injured, were dismissed today from the internship of the Portuguese national team and do not follow the journey to Cardiff, for the fight with Wales, of the League of Football Nations.
According to a note from the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF), Dias and Palhinha, who were already certain casualties after seeing a yellow card at the Saturday meeting with Denmark (4-1), abandoned the internship in an expected way, while the absence of Captain Bernardo who, in Braga, was used alternate and scored the only goal of Portugal at the meeting of the fifth day of Group A4, turns out to be surprising.
“Bernardo Silva was clinically evaluated and considered unfit by the Directorate of Health and Performance of the FPF, being also dismissed”, reads on the official website of the body.
Portugal has a recovery session scheduled for 11:00 in the Sporting City of Braga, which will be completely closed to the media, and in the afternoon, the Portuguese motorcade travels to Wales, where on Monday has a training scheduled for 17:00 at Cardiff City Stadium, the stage of Tuesday's duel.
This means that the Jorge Jesus selector will have 24 players available for the meeting of the sixth and final round of the League of Nations group phase, in which Portugal only needs one point to confirm the first place of the grouping and the serial head status in the final rooms.
On Saturday, in the first game since Cristiano Ronaldo's farewell, Denmark advanced on the scorer with a pinnacle goal by Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, at 43 minutes, and expanded the advantage with two attempts by Rasmus Hojlund, at 50 and 57, and one by Joachim Andersen, at 75, with Bernardo Silva, the new Portuguese captain, to reduce, to 90+3.
This was Portugal's worst home defeat in official games.
Portugal, which had won the first four meetings, leads Group A4 with 12 points, three more than Denmark, while Norway has six and Wales three.
Wales-Portugal is scheduled for 19:45.