The Paredes Post
Squad1 Jan 2029
Oier Olazabal breaks a bone — 21 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match1 Jan 2029
Paredes finish in position 7
21 points, and the season has a number on it. Whatever it felt like from the inside, this is what it will look like in a book.
Player ratings1 Jan 2029
Miguel Moreno scores twice — 8.37
Two goals and a mark of 8.37 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market1 Jan 2029
Fábio Matos puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Paredes, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings1 Jan 2029
André Coutinho was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Words at Paredes training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dodô 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.
Match30 Dec 2028
Paredes find a way past Vitória Guimarães B
Vitória Guimarães B made Paredes work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Ruan Robert 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 Paredes this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad1 Jan 2029
Tomás Mendes signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tomás Mendes and Paredes agree another 4 years.
In brief
- The dugout Lucas Machado: “That is the standard”
- The dugout No hiding place for Fábio Matos
- The dugout Paredes keep their word to Osvaldo Miranda