When reacting to the reports about Manchester United’s interest in Éder Militão, newspaper A Bola reported on Tuesday that the Red Devils had watched all of the player’s home games in the Champions League.
Now as Porto faced Schalke at the Estádio do Dragão on Wednesday, we should already expect that one of José Mourinho’s emissaries would be present at the match.
And that’s exactly what O Jogo and Record both report today. The latter one says the scout was there exactly to watch Militão, ‘reinforcing the evaluation material’ they have about him.
Local outlet O Jogo got so excited with Militão’s performance that we’ll translate their opinion in full.
“Perfect game from the Brazilian. If in his zone of action he solved all the problems with class, he was important to cover the spaces left at the back of Alex Telles. He also scored a beautiful goal, with a header.”
Militão’s goal opened the scoring in Porto’s 3-1 win, and was pretty important for the Dragons to guarantee their spot in the knock-out stage of the Champions League.
Quite a night to impress Manchester United.
