Striker Cristiano Ronaldo was one of the absentees from the training of the Portuguese national football team, which began preparations for the quarterfinals of the World Cup with Morocco on Saturday.
A few hours after the passage to the next leg was guaranteed, with a thrashing against Switzerland (6-1), only the substitutes in the match with the Swiss entered the field of the Al-Shahaniya training center.
The only exception was the Portuguese captain, who was limited to recovery work in the gym along with the previous day’s starters, he who was a substitute coming on in the round of 16, having come on in the second half.
Danilo Pereira and Nuno Mendes were the other absentees as they are still being treated for their respective injuries.
In this way, coach Fernando Santos had 12 players in training, and in the first 15 minutes open to journalists, all trained without restrictions, with the 10 field athletes performing ball circulation exercises in a smaller field, while Rui Patrício and José Sá worked on one of the goals with goalkeeping coach Fernando Justino.
On Tuesday, Portugal secured qualification for the 2022 World Cup quarter-finals by beating Switzerland 6-1 with three goals from Gonçalo Ramos, one from Pepe, one from Raphaël Guerreiro and another from Rafael Leão, as Akanji fell to the Helvetians .
In the ‘quarters’, the ‘quinas’ team will take on Morocco, who eliminated Spain, in a game scheduled for Saturday, starting at 6 p.m. local time (3 p.m. in Lisbon), at Al-Thumama- stadium in Doha. .
Source: DN
