The Penafiel Post
Match14 Aug 2027
Penafiel win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 93th minute. Portimonense will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Manuel Mota out for 27 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Penafiel will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Both of them Juanda Fuentes's — 8.26
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.26, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Fernando 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 Penafiel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Aug 2027
A late step up for Fernando
At 28 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Boardroom16 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Penafiel
3 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Words at Penafiel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Davo 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.
Match14 Aug 2027
Juanda Fuentes the difference as Penafiel beat Portimonense
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Juanda Fuentes. 2‑1 against Portimonense, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings16 Aug 2027
Davo runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Market Duarte Martins steps up from the Penafiel academy
- Market Fabio Rodrigues steps up from the Penafiel academy
- Market Penafiel promote Luis Silva from within