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The return of the Champions League nights to Dragão comes accompanied by the opening of the stadium doors to the FC Porto members, in what will be one of the great attractions of Porto’s second game in the group stage of the millionaire competition: the first, marked by arbitration and highly VAR. Commitment, ended with a defeat (1-3) against Manchester City.
Imposed by the General Directorate of Health, only 3,750 tickets were put up for sale, representing 7.5 percent of the total capacity of the Porto area. But, for those who played the last eight games at home with the bleachers bleakly empty (Marítimo, Boavista, Belenenses, Sporting and Moreirense at the last moment; Gil Vicente, Marítimo and SC Braga already in this campaign), the privilege of hearing more applause from the three thousand fans will undoubtedly have some charm for the players chosen by Sérgio Conceição in the duel with Olympiakos, who arrives at Invicta with three points, a merit of the victory in Athens against Marseille.
To this curiosity that is added to this curiosity that there are two Portuguese coaches on the benches (in group C of the Champions League there is a third coach with genuinely national roots, in the case of André Villas Boas, from Marseille) and the emblem Greek to have five Portuguese players on his squad. (José Sá, Rúben Semedo, Bruma, Rúben Vinagre and Pepê Rodrigues were summoned), on the blue and white side, the expectation of knowing if Luis Díaz will play or not.
By scoring the goal at the Ethiad Stadium, the Colombian abandoned this challenge with City in the second half due to physical discomfort. That earned him the exclusion of the 5th round of the League, confirming the return of the dragons to the triumphs (1-0 victory against Gil Vicente), after three straight games without winning (defeats with Marítimo and Manchester City and a draw against Deportivo ).
Like Luis Díaz, Otávio also continued yesterday in an integrated conditioned training regimen. The Brazilian suffered a muscle injury in the Alvalade classic and City and Gil Vicente failed. Having both available makes a difference.
