Rui Borges is living a already seen from last season and has, in total, 12 players unavailable for the next two games (V. Guimarães and Casa Pia). Hjulmand and Maxi Araújo received their fifth yellow card in this Friday's game against Gil Vicente and failed to welcome the "geese" in the 18th round of the League, with Gonçalo Inácio being sent off and will miss, at least, the "semi-finals" clash of the League Cup against V. Guimarães. Furthermore, the coach has Pedro Gonçalves, Quenda, Daniel Bragança, Debast, Nuno Santos, Ricardo Mangas and Salvador Blopa out due to injury, in addition to Geny Catamo and Ousmane Diomande, who are serving their respective teams in CAN. This means that, at the moment, Rui Borges does not have ten players available for this Tuesday's game (League Cup) and 11 for the next League match.