The Gil Vicente Gazette
Match26 Sep 2026
Gil Vicente cannot stop winning
4 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.
Market28 Sep 2026
Gil Vicente may not be able to give Lucão what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Lucão wants continental football; whether Gil Vicente can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Jonathan Buatu 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 Gil Vicente this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Words at Gil Vicente training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Santi García 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marvin Elimbi in the eights
A performance of 9.34 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match26 Sep 2026
Gil Vicente see off Maritimo
Three points for Gil Vicente, 2‑0 the final word against Maritimo in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
One of those days for Héctor Hernández
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.03, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Gil Vicente lose Bruno Santos
33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Facundo Cáseres gets it from the manager
“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.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Santi García
- Player ratings Jonathan Buatu could not find anything
- Market Pedro Sanca placed on the list