The Vitoria Guimaraes Chronicle
Squad17 Feb 2048
A knee injury of the worst kind for Duarte Miranda
115 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Vitoria Guimaraes lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match15 Feb 2048
No end in sight to Vitoria Guimaraes's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Vitoria Guimaraes has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad17 Feb 2048
Fabio Pinto says Vitoria Guimaraes 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.
Squad17 Feb 2048
Daniel Soares 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.
Squad17 Feb 2048
Felipe Pacheco lets one through his hands
A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.
Match15 Feb 2048
Vitoria Guimaraes come up short against Porto
Porto left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near David Fernandes
- Market The Felipe Pacheco story refuses to die
- Boardroom The Vitoria Guimaraes production line keeps running
- Market Vitoria Guimaraes put Robert Schuster up for sale