The Leiria Courier
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Jordan van der Gaag
Successful dribbles: 62. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Diogo Amado out for 65 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Leiria will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A brace, and Jair Silva takes the afternoon — 8.39
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jair Silva provided it, and the 8.39 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Leiria
Juan Muñoz 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Leiria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reko 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Leiria find a way past Lusitânia Lourosa
Lusitânia Lourosa made Leiria work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Juan Muñoz in the eights
A performance of 8.19 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Pablo Fernández
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Pablo Fernández has come out of that comparison in the side, and Leiria have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Market5 Oct 2026
Pedro Oliveira leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Pedro Oliveira leaves Leiria the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- The terraces The press have found their man in Jair Silva
- The terraces The stand has a song for Jair Silva