<![CDATA[ Odisseia da comitiva do Nacional até Vinhais continua atrasada ]]>

Nacional only arrived at their hotel in Lisbon yesterday, where they spent the night after midnight. This morning, the odyssey to play the third round of the Portuguese Cup, scheduled for today at 3 p.m. in Vinhais, promises to be a long one. The black and whites were supposed to leave Lisbon's Humberto Delgado Airport for the undefeated city by plane, on a TAP flight that was supposed to depart at 8:05 a.m. for Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, but only took off at 8:29 a.m. Typically, the average flight time from Lisbon to Porto is around 57 to 59 minutes. Then, Tiago Margarido's players will have to wait for all their luggage to be picked up and head to Vinhais, a journey that will be made by bus and that, in the best-case scenario, to cover the approximately 218 km, should take about 2 hours and 45 minutes. Therefore, it is expected that those called up by Margarido will arrive at the hotel after 12 pm and immediately have a lighter meal, so that they can start a match that will have the starting whistle given by referee Vítor Lopes, at 3 pm.

The black and white team is expected to arrive at the Rebordelo Playing Field an hour early, meaning this round of the Portuguese premier competition will be a true test of the nationalist players' ability to overcome obstacles.

Tiago Margarido, in the launch of today's match, warned about his opponent's ambitions in wanting to move forward in the Portuguese Cup, because in the last round of the Honor Division, in the district of Bragança, coach Gilberto Vicente presented a very different team, resting some of the usual starters, in what was a match related to the 1st round of the AF Bragança Cup, although the victory smiled on the men from Vinhais by 2-1, against Carção.