Sporting: Marcus Edwards is in a car accident on his way to Alcochete

Marcus Edwards was involved in a car accident this Wednesday morning, when he was heading to the Alcochete Academy, where Sporting is conducting the last training session before the match against Atalanta, tomorrow (5:45 pm), in the Europa League.

As he confirmed More football According to a source at the club, the English winger is in good health and is being monitored by Sporting’s medical team, and the accident only caused material damage to the car in which the player was traveling.

The accident, which occurred in the Atalaya area, resulted in the injury of another driver, who was also unharmed, while firefighters and police rushed to the scene.

However, due to the incident, Edwards missed the 15 minutes open to reporters in Sporting’s training session this morning, as well as Daniel Bragança and Ivan Fresenda. On the other hand, Morita trained without obvious restrictions.

Ruben Amorim said after training that the player will travel to Italy with the rest of his delegation.

“We still don’t know if he will be available for the match, but he will travel with us. He didn’t train today for obvious reasons… he looks good physically, but he’s still a bit weak. We talked to the doctor, as a precaution he has not trained and the pain will not appear until tomorrow [consequências do acidente]. But we have a game to prepare for. “If Marcos is not there, someone else will be,” he told SportTV.