Categories: Football

Covid cases rise to five in Benfica's squad

Benfica has added two new cases of coronarivus to its squad this Monday. Seferovic and João Ferreira tested positive for Covid19 and amounted to five players in the Lisbon club's squad. These two new cases join Pizzi, Jardel and Gonçalo Ramos, they had tested positive last week. In addition to the five footballers, Tiago Pinto, the club's football director, and Nuno Farinha, communication advisor, have also tested positive.

Benfica will face Portimonense this Tuesday and Jorge Jesús will have seven casualties, Since in addition to the five players by Covid, he will not be able to count on the injured André Almeida and Gabriel either.

Benfica is second in the Portuguese league, five points behind Sporting de Portugal, but with one game less than Alvalade's team. This Tuesday's meeting is important so as not to lose the leader's wake and so that Porto, with two points less, snatch second position from him.

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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