Nacho Senar

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Leixões
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The Leixões Chronicle

18 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad18 Oct 2027

Vinícius Matheus breaks a bone — 103 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 103 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

Miguel Pereira was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 29. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market18 Oct 2027

Only the photograph left for Gilberto

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Gilberto will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Leixões the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad18 Oct 2027

Werton 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 Leixões this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad18 Oct 2027

A row about effort at Leixões

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Miguel Pereira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings18 Oct 2027

Nobody on the pitch touched Fernando Fonseca

7.63, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Leixões had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

Fernando Fonseca: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

The dugout18 Oct 2027

Somebody else is better right now than Paulinho

The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.

Looking ahead18 Oct 2027

Leixões take on the side everybody is chasing

Porto B arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

  • Squad The formation has left Nacho Senar behind
  • Match Point won or two lost for Leixões?
  • The dugout Paulinho asks for a word with the manager
Back issues
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The Leixões Chronicle

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad11 Oct 2027

111 days out for Vinícius Matheus after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Leixões will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout11 Oct 2027

Gilberto says Leixões went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

Vintage Adilson Bahia — 7.94

At 35 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.94, and nobody on the pitch better.

Player ratings11 Oct 2027

Miguel Pereira was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market11 Oct 2027

Leixões may not be able to give Matheus Costa what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Matheus Costa wants continental football; whether Leixões can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Caio Secco 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 Leixões this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Nacho Senar gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Nacho Senar has just signed for Leixões, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad11 Oct 2027

Werton 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.

Match9 Oct 2027

Adilson Bahia sends Leixões past Sporting CP B

It finished 1‑0, and it was Adilson Bahia’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Leixões.

In brief