Marked for André Moreira
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad25 Jan 2027
46 days out for Diogo Conceicao after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Felgueiras will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings25 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Match23 Jan 2027
Still nobody has beaten Felgueiras
The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad25 Jan 2027
Tiago Leite 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.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A row about effort at Felgueiras
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.
Transfer targets25 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The terraces25 Jan 2027
The crowd has taken to Thauan Lara
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.
The dugout25 Jan 2027
No hiding place for Menezes
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Menezes, and the manager let it.
Squad25 Jan 2027
A muscle injury and 15 days out for Rodolfo Cardoso
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Felgueiras will quote 15 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
In brief
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Transfer targets
A loan move for Diegão is in the works
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Player ratings
Thauan Lara takes the honours
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The dugout
André Moreira has become a man the manager trusts
Back issues
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Upbeat
Match16 Jan 2027
Felgueiras win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 90th minute. Torreense will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Andre Martins breaks a bone — 15 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 15 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. 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.
Match16 Jan 2027
Whatever happens, Felgueiras do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Miguel Pereira and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match16 Jan 2027
Another one collected away from home
4 on the bounce on the road for Felgueiras. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.
Match16 Jan 2027
It finished 3‑2, and it was Tiago Leite’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Felgueiras.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Upbeat
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.98, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad14 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Felgueiras
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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Felgueiras this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Dec 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Léo Teixeira. 2‑1 against Pacos de Ferreira, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market14 Dec 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Rui Costa 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.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings14 Dec 2026
Armando Lopes was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.12. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑1, Duarte Miranda could afford to be generous.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
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Crisis
Squad16 Nov 2026
Fábio Martins and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match14 Nov 2026
Portimonense left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Leonardo 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 dugout16 Nov 2026
Agdon gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Too much change too quickly at Felgueiras
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑1, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
The dugout16 Nov 2026
Tiago Leite asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
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Uneasy
Match31 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Felgueiras
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Felgueiras are no longer polite ones.
Squad2 Nov 2026
André Moreira decides it from twelve yards
2 kept out in the shoot-out, and a stadium that will still be describing them in twenty years. A goalkeeper only needs one of these to be remembered forever.
Match28 Oct 2026
The small margins put Felgueiras out
Out, 0‑0 to Sporting CP, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Adalberto pulls a muscle — 17 days out
The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 17 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Words at Felgueiras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fábio Martins 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.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Adalberto and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match31 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Farense, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
No hiding place for Adalberto
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adalberto, and the manager let it.
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Crisis
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 35. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match17 Oct 2026
7 matches without a win for Felgueiras
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Felgueiras are no longer polite ones.
Match17 Oct 2026
6 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Match17 Oct 2026
9 matches without defeat, and then Maritimo. Nobody at the ground pretended it would go on forever; nobody expected it to stop here either.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Miguel Pereira 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Felgueiras training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Léo Teixeira 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.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
André Moreira arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. André Moreira has, at Felgueiras, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Afonso Freitas and Felgueiras agree another 4 years.
Market3 Aug 2026
The shirt still fits. Landinho is back at Felgueiras, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Léo Teixeira 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market3 Aug 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Felgueiras are still strangers to each other
10 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Felgueiras have made the call to Estoril Praia. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Tiago Leite asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.