Selections cause razia. Alarm in Benfica and Sporting gives gas... to FC Porto

Bsports and sports have seen their respective main teams truly devastated by the pause for international commitments, since, after all, each of the eternal rivals lost 17 players to the selections, at a potentially delicate stage of the new 2026/27 sports season.

Marco Silva will not be able to count on Samuel Soares, Tomás Araújo, João Palhinha (Portugal), Diogo Ferreira, Daniel Banjaqui (sub-21 of Portugal), José Neto (sub-19 of Portugal), Anatoliy Trubin, Georgiy Sudakov (Ukraine), Fredrik Aursnes, Andreas Schjelderup (Norway), Alexander Bah (Denmark), Leandro Barreiro (Luxembourg), Jakub Kaminski (Poland), Dodi Lukebakio (Belgium), Vangelis Pavlidis (Greecia), Gianluca Prestianni (Argentina) and Alessandro Circati (Australia).

Rui Borges, for his part, saw ‘fly’ Rui Silva, Gonçalo Inacio (Portugal), Flávio Gonçalves, Eduardo Felicíssimo, Rafael Nel (sub-21 de Portugal), Maxi Araújo, Rodrigo Zalazar (Uruguay) Georgios Vagiandis, Fotis Ioannidis (Greece), Zeno Debast (Belgium), Issa Doumbia (Italy), Luis Suárez (Colombia), Geny Catamo (Mozambique), Nestory Irankunda (Australia), Ivan Fresneda (Spain), Silas Andersen (sub-21 of Denmark) and Jesse Derry (sub-20 of England).

Far more reasons to smile had Francesco Farioli, since FC Porto ended up ‘giving’ only nine footballers, namely Diogo Costa (Portugal), João Afonso (sub-21 de Portugal), Jan Bednarek, Jakub Kiwior (Poland), Victor Froholdt (Denmark), Pablo Rosario (Dominican Republic), Inbeom Hwang (South Korea), Santiago Giménez (Mexico) and Dominik Prpic (sub-21 of Croatia).

Farioli's immediate concerns in FC Porto

However, if Marco Silva and Rui Borges will each count with a mere ten players from the main squad to work, over the two weeks, which will force them to resort to Benfica and Sporting's formation layers (which have also been depleted), Francesco Farioli will have a significantly greater margin for working the team.

The Italian coach granted a mini-vacancy to the national champions in title, which only return to work on Monday. However, it is expected that the injured João Costa, Nehuén Pérez, Zaidu Sanusi, Seko Fofana, Vasco Sousa and André Miranda take this time to speed up their recovery.

On Friday, following, at 6 p.m. (Hour of Continental Portugal), the blues and whites will continue their journey to Spain, to compete for a private meeting with the Coruña Deportivo, at the Riazor Municipal Stadium, which will mainly serve to consolidate processes, and some jump into view.

André Silva has convinced, since he was recruited to Elche, the ‘zero cost’, but the dragons will be committed to ensuring that Samu Aghehowa he recovers the best summer as soon as possible. Without pillars Diogo Costa, Jan Bednarek and Jakub Kiwior, new ways will also be tested to safeguard the rearmost sector of the land, particularly given the permeability demonstrated, in the pre-season, before the captain arrives.

Alan Varela will try to take advantage of Pablo Rosario's absence to regain the preponderance of other times, in the midfield, while the most expensive reinforcement of the past summer transfer market, Gabriel Mec (bought to the Guild for EUR 11 million plus EUR 1 million in bonuses) will be worked to finally have the chance to debut as a dragon to the chest.