Rodrigo Zalazar makes alarms sound 48 hours from Lens-Sporting

Rodrigo Zalazar runs serious risks of failing the meeting of the third day of the league phase of the Champions League, which will put, face to face, Lens and Sporting, following a muscle injury contracted, last Friday, during the triumph conquered in the trip to the Municipal Stadium of Braga, on Sporting Braga, by 1-3.

The news is advanced by the Sunday edition of the newspaper Bola, who writes that the physical state of the creative requires particular care because of the high physical burden to which it itself was subjected, in the recent pause for international commitments, since it was used by Uruguay in meetings of a particular nature before Japan (defeat, by 3-1), South Korea (victory, by 1-4) and India (goled, by 1-6).

The latter friendly was held at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan Stadium in Calcutta, just over 72 hours away from the visit to the Pedreira, which forced the 27-year-old player (who was bet the holder and scored a goal, before being replaced by Facundo Pellistri, at 64 minutes) to carry out an authentic ‘maratona’, to arrive in time to join the list of Rui Borges convoys.

It is certain that he was able to do so... for the happiness of the green and white emblem, since, despite having started sitting on the bench of alternates, from there he ‘jumped’, at 58 minutes, to the place of Silas Andersen, to ‘force’ the self-neck and mark himself the attempt that sealed the final result in Minho. It was, moreover, precisely in this last move that he resented, so he immediately gave the place to John Simões.

It should be precisely the international sub-21 Portuguese to do sometimes the teammate, at the Stade Bollaert-Delelis, from 5:45 p.m. (Hour of Continental Portugal) next Tuesday. It, in reverse, returned to the lawns, following a long stop caused by a fracture in the fifth metatarsal of the right foot, and gave positive indicators in Minho.

In addition to Rodrigo Zalazar, Rui Borges also knows beforehand that he will not be able to count on Nuno Santos in France, who continues to look for the best physical indices, the result of a series of muscle problems.

Sporting accounts in the Champions League

Sporting, remember, entered in the best possible way in the league phase of the 2026/27 sports season of the Champions League, by taking the best over Galatasaray, in the José Alvalade Stadium, by 3-1. This means that it adds three points and shares the leadership of the table with Paris Saint-Germain, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Manchester United, Como, Stuttgart, Manchester City, Aston Villa, Real Betis, Borussia Dortmund, Real Madrid, Liverpool, Arsenal and AEK.

In the middle of this first-rate ‘train’ is also the Lens, who went to Fortuna Arena in the Czech Republic, defeat Slavia Prague by 2-3, in a ‘mad’ game, which was only decided three minutes after 90, by Reuben Aguilar, and which was marked by the debut in the million-dollar race of Mezian Mesloub Soares, Portuguese-French, only 16 years old.