The Rio Ave Post
Match12 Dec 2026
Rio Ave tear AVS apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 3‑0 against AVS, and it could have been more.
Match12 Dec 2026
The drought breaks for Rio Ave
12 without a win is the sort of run that changes how a town talks about its club, and AVS were the afternoon it stopped. Nothing is fixed by one result and everything feels different by one.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
Ennio van der Gouw: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Rio Ave have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words exchanged at Rio Ave
Jordan Holsgrove 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.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
Pedro Virgínia counts the days
“I watch every Rio Ave game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at São João de Ver runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Diogo Nascimento was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.23. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of Ole Pohlmann at his very best
Marked 8.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Rio Ave.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Rio Ave lose Tiago Ribeiro
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Rio Ave count the cost of losing Lorent Talla
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than André Luis
- The dugout No hiding place for Malik Sellouki
- The dugout Sergio Nascimento has his say