Marked for Tyler Keating
From our football correspondent
Upbeat
Match12 Dec 2026
Maritimo cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Adrián Butzke 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Martim Dias arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Martim Dias has, at Maritimo, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
The terraces14 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Martín Tejón has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match12 Dec 2026
Three points for Maritimo, 1‑0 the final word against Chaves in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad14 Dec 2026
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Maritimo know it.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Marked 7.65 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Maritimo had the best player on the pitch.
Market14 Dec 2026
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Rodrigo Santos could afford to be generous.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Maritimo training over how hard people work
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Player ratings
Martim Tavares could have had three
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Almeida
Back issues
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Steady
Squad23 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Maritimo
Adrián Butzke and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match21 Nov 2026
Whatever happens, Maritimo do not lose
6 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Carlos Daniel, and the manager let it.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.50 on the card, and the Maritimo support went home talking about one name.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Rodrigo Santos was not hiding it after 0‑0, and nobody in the Maritimo dressing room was either.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Tyler Keating 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.
The dugout23 Nov 2026
The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Match21 Nov 2026
Nil-nil, and few chances worth the name. Sporting CP B came to defend and left with exactly what they came for.
Looking ahead23 Nov 2026
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Raphael Guzzo’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Maritimo needing him to play as if none of it matters.
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Uneasy
Squad2 Nov 2026
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Gonçalo Tabuaço: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match28 Oct 2026
The small margins put Maritimo out
Out, 1‑1 to Alverca, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Match28 Oct 2026
Maritimo rescue it on 112 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 112. Alverca had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words exchanged at Maritimo
André Miranda and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
It was his to settle and he did not settle it. A long walk back to the halfway line, and a considerably longer week.
Market2 Nov 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Chances created: 12. Nothing on the scoresheet and everything in the match: the pass before the pass, over and over, until the defence stopped guessing right.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Marked 7.86. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maritimo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Bryan Limbombe
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad12 Oct 2026
13 new faces, and Maritimo are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words at Maritimo training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tyler Keating 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.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Sidney Osei has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Maritimo will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Noah Madsen asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes Gábor Szalai a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Maritimo. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
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Upbeat
Match16 Sep 2026
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Sidney Osei obliged against Paredes. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Maritimo.
Match19 Sep 2026
Lusitânia Lourosa will want this one forgotten quickly: 3‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Maritimo were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A brace, and Maxime Dominguez takes the afternoon — 6.47
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Maxime Dominguez provided it, and the 6.47 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from André Miranda at 19 — 7.78
The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. André Miranda did not need any: 7.78, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad21 Sep 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maritimo this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Marcelo Bourscheidt is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
The terraces21 Sep 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Martín Tejón
A mark of 7.89, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Maxime Dominguez's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
In brief
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The dugout
The manager’s verdict
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Squad
Words at Maritimo training over how hard people work
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The dugout
The plan did not have a place for Bryan Limbombe
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Dila had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market31 Aug 2026
Tyler Keating 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 Maritimo can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Casa Pia have kept their man, and Maritimo go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Cortulua is saying, and nobody at Maritimo is enjoying the guessing.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Maritimo
Adrián Butzke and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match29 Aug 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Raphael Guzzo’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Maritimo.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.15 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Market31 Aug 2026
He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Samuel Bamba beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.