The Leiria Courier
Match9 Jan 2027
Leiria run riot against Porto B
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Pablo Fernández scores twice — 8.22
Two goals and a mark of 8.22 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings11 Jan 2027
Reko goes up and wins it — 7.97
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.97 for the rest of it.
Match9 Jan 2027
Leiria make home a hard place to visit
11 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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
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.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Words at Leiria training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renato Sanches 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.
Market11 Jan 2027
Andre Martins steps up from the Leiria academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andre Martins has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market11 Jan 2027
Rafael Moreira steps up from the Leiria academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rafael Moreira has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market11 Jan 2027
Leiria promote Felipe Miranda from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Felipe Miranda has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Rui Lopes steps up from the Leiria academy
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Jordan van der Gaag at his very best
- Player ratings Borislav Rupanov was on a different afternoon to everybody else