Andreas Ndoj

Central Defender - Rio Ave
26 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Andreas Ndoj

11 Edition

The Rio Ave Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Miguel Patrício breaks a bone — 56 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 56 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Rafael Lobato

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Cezary Miszta in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rio Ave this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Rafael Lobato

At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Tamble Monteiro the difference as Rio Ave beat Nacional

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Tamble Monteiro. 1‑0 against Nacional, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

Words at Rio Ave training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jakub Brabec is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief

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The Rio Ave Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jalen Blesa

Successful dribbles: 34. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A fracture rules Miguel Patrício out for 94 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Rio Ave will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Rio Ave say no — this time

The offer from Lusitânia Lourosa for Samuel Alves was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Rio Ave

Marios Vrousai was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Francisco Petrasso falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Tamble Monteiro in the eights

A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Tamble Monteiro answers Vitoria Guimaraes immediately

Conceding is one thing; the response is what tells you about a dressing room. Tamble Monteiro had Rio Ave level again within 3 minutes, and Vitoria Guimaraes never got to play with a lead at all.

Squad

Andreas Ndoj gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Match

Honours even between Rio Ave and Vitoria Guimaraes

1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief