The footballer Pepe trained with FC Porto this Friday, at the beginning of preparations for the visit to Sporting, on Monday, on matchday 14 of the I Liga, the national runner-up announced this Friday.
The center back and captain became part of the dragons’ clinical team, along with Iván Marcano and Gabriel Verón, two days after starring in the victorious reception against the Ukrainian Shakhtar Donetsk (5-3), on the sixth and last day of the tournament . Champions League Group H season, which secured the club’s fourteenth appearance in the round of 16 of the competition.
Pepe, 40, had complained about his right ankle in the final minutes of that match and lay down on the pitch to receive medical attention shortly after the final whistle of Romanian referee István Kovács, now remaining in doubt for three days. of the visit to Deportivo.
The left back João Mendes, from the Dragons’ B team, from the II League, returned this Friday to join the work of the senior team, which will continue preparing for the ‘classic’ on Saturday, at 10:30 a.m., in Training PortoGaia Sports Training and Center, in Olival.
Sporting and FC Porto, both tied at the top of the I Liga, with 31 points, face each other on Monday, at 8:15 p.m., at the José Alvalade Stadium, in Lisbon, in the closing duel of the 14th round, under the refereeing of Nuno Almeida, of the Algarve Football Association.
Source: TSF
