The Estrela da Amadora Post
Squad26 Oct 2026
Karel Spáčil keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Estrela da Amadora may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Estrela da Amadora
Renan Ribeiro 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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Karel Spáčil 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.
The terraces26 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Leandro Antonetti
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Lovro Zvonarek
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Estrela da Amadora count the cost of losing Ivandro Silva
49 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match24 Oct 2026
Estrela da Amadora get the job done against Arouca
A 1‑0 win over Arouca, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
The afternoon belonged to Beni Souza
A mark of 7.57, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Off the bench and decisive: Leandro Antonetti
The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Estrela da Amadora were going nowhere until he came on.
In brief
- Player ratings The referee tires of Tom Moustier
- Loan watch Felgueiras cannot leave Diogo Pinto out