This Wednesday, FC Porto beat Portimonense, 2-0, in the third pre-season match between the two clubs in the First Football League, which was played behind closed doors at the Estádio Municipal dos Irmãos, in Portimão the dragons announced.
Romário Baró (minute 73), assisted by Toni Martínez, and Gonçalo Borges (79), at the behest of João Mendes, scored the goals for the team led by Sérgio Conceição, who even saw André Franco miss a penalty against Gabriel Souza (minute 63 ). ).
Arranged in ‘4-4-2’, FC Porto started with goalkeeper Samuel Portugal, defenders Dinis Rodrigues, Fábio Cardoso, David Carmo and Wendell, midfielders Ussumane Djaló, Bernardo Folha, Rui Monteiro and Galeno, and forwards Namaso and Fran Navarro.
Cláudio Ramos, Pepê, João Marcelo, Iván Marcano, João Mendes, Romário Baró, André Franco, Vasco Sousa, Gonçalo Borges, Abraham Marcus and Toni Martínez were launched in the second half by the ‘dragons’, who used 22 of the 33 athletes present at the training camp, which has been taking place in Vale do Garrão, located in the village of Almancil, in the municipality of Loulé.
Outside were the seven internationals who had joined the squad on Monday, such as Diogo Costa, Pepe, Zaidu, Marko Grujic, Stephen Eustáquio, Otávio or Mehdi Taremi, as well as Francisco Meixedo, who represented Portugal on the European subcontinent. .
In the clinical bulletin are João Mário, Gabriel Veron and Evanilson, who had started the preseason in the process of recovering from injuries, despite the fact that the two Brazilian forwards already evolved on Tuesday to a conditioned integrated training regimen.
As for Portimonense, the starters were Paulo Sérgio, goalkeeper Vinicius, defenders Guga, Alemão, Filipe Relvas and Gonçalo Costa, midfielders Lucas Ventura, Paulo Estrela and Carlinhos and forwards Kim Yong-hak, Sylvester Jasper or Ronie Carrillo.
From the substitute bench, Gabriel Souza, Rafael Alcobia, Pedrão, Moustapha Seck, Igor Formiga, Mohamed Diaby, Maurício, Hélio Varela, Davis Silva, Rildo, Ângelo Taveira and Paulinho left the bench throughout this afternoon, with eight reinforcements released .
FC Porto achieved its third victory in the preseason, after beating Académica (4-0), from League 3, and the ‘blue and white’ B team (3-0), from the secondary level, in games they played in Olival, and will continue with an internship in the Algarve until next Wednesday.
The dragons aim for the Cândido de Oliveira Super Cup against the national champion Benfica, on August 8 or 9, in Aveiro, in the first official match of 2023/24.
Portimonense, who was coming off two trials with two-time Scottish champions Celtic (0-0 draw and 4-1 loss), will begin the new season with a welcome to Estrela da Amadora, recently promoted to the I Liga, on Sunday. at 8:30 p.m., for the first day of the League Cup.
Source: TSF
