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550 Edition

The Famalicao Chronicle

9 Feb 2037
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad9 Feb 2037

A one-man rearguard from Jakub Vinarcik

There were 19 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad9 Feb 2037

Gustavo Sá is in the form of his life

A season average of 8.21 with 24 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Squad9 Feb 2037

A knee injury of the worst kind for Simão Neto

18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Famalicao lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match7 Feb 2037

Famalicao throw away a 3-goal lead

3 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Braga the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Famalicao will enjoy reviewing.

Squad9 Feb 2037

Fernando Santos breaks a bone — 14 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 14 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings9 Feb 2037

A brace, and Gustavo Sá takes the afternoon — 8.87

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Gustavo Sá provided it, and the 8.87 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings9 Feb 2037

Alioune Ndoye, 35, rolls back the years — 8.01

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.01 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Match7 Feb 2037

Gustavo Sá’s goal not enough for Famalicao

Gustavo Sá scored, and precious little else went right: 4‑5 to Braga, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Match7 Feb 2037

No clean sheets in sight for Famalicao

4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.

In brief

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549 Edition

The Famalicao Chronicle

2 Feb 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad2 Feb 2037

Simão Neto damages knee ligaments — 26 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad2 Feb 2037

A fracture rules Fernando Santos out for 22 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Famalicao will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings2 Feb 2037

Ibrahima Ba scores twice — 8.81

Two goals and a mark of 8.81 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad2 Feb 2037

Miguel Nóbrega keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Famalicao may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad2 Feb 2037

Ibrahima Ba is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.50 with 16 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Match31 Jan 2037

Still nobody has beaten Famalicao

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match31 Jan 2037

Famalicao make home a hard place to visit

9 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 ratings2 Feb 2037

Ninety minutes of Gustavo Sá at his very best

Marked 8.65. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Famalicao.

Match31 Jan 2037

No time for Vitoria Guimaraes to settle

The goal that put Vitoria Guimaraes ahead was still being replayed on the concourse when Famalicao equalised, 3 minutes later. Leads are only worth what you do with them.

In brief

548 Edition

The Famalicao Chronicle

26 Jan 2037
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 Jan 2037

Gustavo Sá is carrying Famalicao

22 goals and a season average of 8.18. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

Squad26 Jan 2037

A knee injury of the worst kind for Simão Neto

34 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Famalicao lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match24 Jan 2037

Pacos de Ferreira punish Famalicao for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Sorriso will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Famalicao escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Squad26 Jan 2037

A fracture rules Fernando Santos out for 29 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Famalicao will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad26 Jan 2037

Jakub Vinarcik keeps Famalicao in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings26 Jan 2037

Alioune Ndoye, 35, rolls back the years — 8.41

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.41 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market26 Jan 2037

Julen Lobete 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 Famalicao can pretend not to have heard.

Match24 Jan 2037

Whatever happens, Famalicao do not lose

8 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.

Player ratings26 Jan 2037

A masterclass from Gustavo Sá

Marked 9.42 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief