The Porto Herald
Squad14 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for André Silva
19 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Porto lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match10 Dec 2026
Gabriel Veron lights up a European night for Porto
1‑1 against Spartak Moscow, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Gabriel Veron was at the centre of the description.
Match12 Dec 2026
Porto run riot against AVS
5‑2, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Luuk de Jong takes the match ball home
3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Luuk de Jong, 36, rolls back the years — 9.82
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 9.82 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match12 Dec 2026
Porto make home a hard place to visit
13 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
William Gomes beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
No sign of nerves from André Miranda at 19 — 7.82
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. André Miranda did not need any: 7.82, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Victor Froholdt 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 Porto this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Match Luuk de Jong among the goals in a wild afternoon
- Squad Santiago Giménez falls out with a teammate over standards
- The terraces Porto supporters have found a favourite in Souza