The Benfica B Gazette
Match31 Jan 2028
Benfica B up to position 3
46 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Player ratings31 Jan 2028
No sign of nerves from Eduardo Fernandes at 21 — 7.75
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Eduardo Fernandes did not need any: 7.75, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market31 Jan 2028
Eyes on Gonçalo Moreira again
The phone has started ringing about Gonçalo Moreira again, and this time the name on the line is Leixões. Benfica B are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market31 Jan 2028
Sassuolo come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Benfica B did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Kevin Pinto says Benfica B went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match29 Jan 2028
6 goals as Benfica B and Torreense go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 6 goals between Benfica B and Torreense, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Match29 Jan 2028
Benfica B see off Torreense
Three points for Benfica B, 4‑2 the final word against Torreense in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Words at Benfica B training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gonçalo Moreira 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.
Squad31 Jan 2028
Eduardo Fernandes 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 Benfica B this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
- Squad The manager makes an example of João Rego
- The terraces The crowd has taken to João Rego
- Player ratings Gonçalo Moreira in the eights