Categories: Football

Benfica is left without defenses: Otamendi and Tavares, positive

Benfica will play today the second semi-final of the League Cup against Braga and it will without his starting defensive line, since the club has communicated that the five positives from yesterday are joined by the Argentine central Otamendi and the left side Portuguese Nuno Tavares.

In this way, the Covid-19 outbreak detected in the Benfica club has affected 19 people, These include seven first-team players and the club's president himself, Luís Filipe Vieira.

On Tuesday, Benfica announced the positives of the Spanish side Alejandro Grimaldo, Brazilian right-back Gilberto, Belgian center-back Vertonghen, young Portuguese midfielder Diogo Gonçalves and German international striker Luca Waldschmidt.

The city of Leiria hosts tonight the second semifinal of the Portuguese League Cup between Benfica and Braga, as happened yesterday between Sporting and Porto, where the Verdiblancos beat “the dragons” and thus achieved the square for the final on Saturday.

Gabby Barker

Gabby is someone who is interested in all types of sports, she loves to attend watching matches live. Whenever there is a match being played in her city, she makes sure to get the tickets in advance. Due to the love for sports, she joined Sportsfinding, and started writing general sports news. Apart from writing the news, she is also the editor for the website who checks and edits every news content before they go live.

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