The AVS Gazette
Match24 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for AVS
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around AVS are no longer polite ones.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Ivan Mandić
43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. AVS lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match26 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for AVS
Position 16 and 5 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Tunde runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match24 Oct 2026
Santa Clara take the points off AVS
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at AVS training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jorge Meireles 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.
In brief
- Player ratings A masterclass from Guilherme Neiva
- Squad Ángel Algobia gets it from the manager
- Squad Ivan Mandić in a row with a teammate