Low weight for Jorge Jesus. Jan Vertonghen, Belgian central who was injured in the match against Spartak Moskva (2×0), will be long-term low at Benfica and it is expected that he will only be fit after the stop for national team commitments, scheduled for the first half of September, which means he will miss the Champions League play-off and three league games.
According to international press reports, the 34-year-old defender has a similar injury (in the left calf) to the one that Haris Seferovic suffered some time ago and this should keep him away for the next three weeks. However, the embodied leaders fear that the injury will be a little more serious and will carry out more detailed examinations this Thursday.
If this time out is confirmed, Vertonghen is out of Jorge Jesus’ options for the decisive play-off of the Champions League against the Dutch PSV and also misses the next three commitments of the Eagles for the championship, against Arouca, Gil Vicente e Tondela, returning only after the stop for selections, which ends in mid-September.
Thus, Jorge Jesus will have to replace the Belgian in the starting lineup, at a time that he has been playing with three central defenders. That leaves Lucas Veríssimo, Otamendi – who start on the front line for the title -, Morato and Ferro (in addition to Tomás Araújo from team B and the possible adaptation of Weigl).
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