The Portugal national team resumed training this Monday to prepare for the duel against Spain next Thursday, with an afternoon session in which goalkeeper Rui Patrício and center back Pepe joined the rest of the group.
After the rest day on Sunday, 24 of the 26 summoned by Fernando Santos They jumped onto the lawn of the Oeiras Football City, on the outskirts of Lisbon, to continue preparing for the Nations League matches.
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Rui Patricio, who last Wednesday played and won the Conference League final with Roma, and Pepe (Porto), who had permission to join the concentration later, premiered this Monday with the group.
The front Diogo Jota, who is not expected until this Tuesday because he played the Champions League final with Liverpool last Saturday, and Vítor Ferreira “Vitinha” (Porto), isolated after testing positive for covid-19, were the two absent from the session .
The positive of Vitinha was announced on Saturday, so he is not expected to travel to Seville with the rest of the group to play the game against Spain scheduled for Thursday.
After the match on Spanish soil, the “quinas” will return to Lisbon, where they will receive Switzerland (on the 5th) and the Czech Republic (on the 9th), and finally they will face each other again with the Swiss team on the 12th in Geneva.
The Portugal team has scheduled the next training session this Tuesday morning.
