I think Santos should have called Ronny Lopes, very unfair imo. We have a big problem with our CB's, Fonte and Alves are just numbers, Pepe highly unlikely he will reach a good level, and Ruben Dias from what I watch here in Portugal is a disaster waiting to happen, particularly when we are talking about potential red cards.
Best we can reach with this team is the last 16, but won't be surprised if we get eliminated in the group stage. No way a counter attack style of football can survive with crap CB's. We don't have players with technical ability to play from the back, we don't have a solid enough style to play deep and break the opponents with fast counters.
Its sad, because even with the CB's problem we have better options than we had in 2016.