The Portimonense Courier
Squad14 Feb 2028
Boris Radunović damages knee ligaments — 130 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 130 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match9 Feb 2028
The small margins put Portimonense out
Out, 0‑1 to Penafiel, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Market14 Feb 2028
Zinho puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Portimonense, and it is not being withdrawn.
The terraces14 Feb 2028
The ground has had enough
“We travel everywhere and we get this.” 13 of the 36 senior players heard it walking off, and the ones who did not hear it were not playing.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Douglas Friedrich keeps Portimonense in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
Jarleysom goes up and wins it — 7.55
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.55 for the rest of it.
Player ratings14 Feb 2028
A chastening introduction for Kwider Benmakrelouf — 5.42
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.42 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Squad14 Feb 2028
Boris Radunović 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 Portimonense this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match12 Feb 2028
Portimonense come up short against Sporting CP
Sporting CP left with the points after a 3‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
In brief
- Match Issa Doumbia among the goals in a wild afternoon
- Squad A move Danilo Luís would have made for nothing
- Player ratings Issa Doumbia was on a different afternoon to everybody else