The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle
The dugout22 Mar 2027
Miguel Nóbrega: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Vitoria Guimaraes have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market22 Mar 2027
Duarte Carreira hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Vitoria Guimaraes can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Gustavo Silva was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad22 Mar 2027
A falling-out at Vitoria Guimaraes
Gedson Fernandes and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Mathias Tepe is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad22 Mar 2027
Miguel Maga 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.
Match20 Mar 2027
Late, late show earns Vitoria Guimaraes a point
Minute 95, against Moreirense, and a goal that felt like a win to everybody who had stayed. It was a draw. Nobody leaving the ground will describe it as one.
Player ratings22 Mar 2027
Arnel Jakupović takes the honours
Marked 7.83 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Vitoria Guimaraes had the best player on the pitch.
Match20 Mar 2027
Honours even between Vitoria Guimaraes and Moreirense
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
- The dugout Jorge Lopes: “We have to be better”
- The dugout Miguel Maga asks for a word with the manager
- Market The Gustavo Silva story refuses to die