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Crisis
Match31 Oct 2026
10 matches without a win for Braga B
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Braga B are no longer polite ones.
Match31 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for Braga B
A 0‑7 beating by Paredes was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad2 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Kyanno Silva out for 18 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Braga B will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match31 Oct 2026
Nobody could stop scoring
7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Braga B and Paredes in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Match31 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Braga B
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Braga B can tell you which week it ends in.
The terraces2 Nov 2026
He is 21 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Nobody left the Braga B dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑7, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
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Crisis
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 47. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match26 Oct 2026
Braga B sink to position 10
3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Match24 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Braga B
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match24 Oct 2026
Chastening afternoon for Braga B
A 0‑3 beating by Vitória Guimarães B was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.
Squad26 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Kyanno Silva out for 25 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Braga B will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad26 Oct 2026
7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Looking ahead26 Oct 2026
Braga B face Paredes in the game that matters most
Two sides from the bottom of the table, three points, and an afternoon that will be described afterwards as a relegation decider by whoever loses it.
Match26 Oct 2026
Halfway: Braga B sit in position 10
3 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑3 defeat, delivered by Samuel Fonseca to a room that had heard them before.
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Crisis
Squad19 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 11 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match17 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑5 by Varzim, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Match17 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Braga B
8 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Diogo Travassos is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Boardroom19 Oct 2026
Nobody left the Braga B dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑5, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rúben Furtado, and the manager let it.
Market19 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Diogo Travassos signs something — a contract at Braga B or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Rúben Furtado 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Braga B. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
They sit in position 3 and they will be waiting. Away form is where a season shows its true character, and this side has a point to make about its own.
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Uneasy
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Braga B
7 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A place in the month's best eleven for Rúben Furtado
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Rúben Furtado has come out of that comparison in the side, and Braga B have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match3 Oct 2026
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Samuel Fonseca after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Rúben Furtado has moved up it.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
The shape wanted a different profile against this opponent, which is a real football answer and no comfort at all to the man it is about. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I am not asking anybody to be better than they are. I am asking everybody to be as good as they are, every week.” Said out loud, in front of everybody, and the room at Braga B was different afterwards.
Market5 Oct 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Rúben Furtado’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Crisis
Squad28 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 17 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match26 Sep 2026
0‑9 to Fafe, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match28 Sep 2026
Braga B are in real trouble now
Position 10, 2 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Braga B
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Match26 Sep 2026
Braga B cannot find the net
4 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.
Match26 Sep 2026
9 goals as Braga B and Fafe go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 9 goals between Braga B and Fafe, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Kyanno Silva beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Boardroom28 Sep 2026
The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑9, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Uneasy
Match19 Sep 2026
5 matches without a win for Braga B
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around Braga B are no longer polite ones.
Squad21 Sep 2026
The step up is real for Dinis Gama
At 22 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.
Match19 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Braga B
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Diogo Travassos
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Braga B
Guilherme Barbosa 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.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Samuel Fonseca after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Match19 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Sanjoanense will be the happier side with the point.
Market21 Sep 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Diogo Travassos signs something — a contract at Braga B or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
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Crisis
Squad14 Sep 2026
23 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match12 Sep 2026
Nowhere to hide for Braga B
0‑7 against Trofense, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Market14 Sep 2026
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Rúben Furtado had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 28. 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
“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 Braga B, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match12 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Braga B
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Braga B are no longer polite ones.
Match12 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Braga B and Trofense, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Boardroom14 Sep 2026
Doors closed at Braga B
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
The dugout14 Sep 2026
“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑7, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.
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Uneasy
Market7 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Braga B have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market7 Sep 2026
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Market7 Sep 2026
The bid was some way short and Braga B did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tomás Marques makes the team of the month
Four or five weekends of consistency, measured against everybody else in the division. A quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
Looking ahead7 Sep 2026
The leaders are next for Braga B
Trofense top the table and they are coming into view. Nothing to lose, which is what every manager says before losing.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Diogo Travassos has moved up it.
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Crisis
Squad31 Aug 2026
There were 16 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Guilherme Barbosa damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Braga B people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings31 Aug 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.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
He is 22 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
Market31 Aug 2026
The phone has started ringing about Rúben Furtado again, and this time the name on the line is Leixões. Braga B are listening politely and promising nothing.
Match29 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Samuel Fonseca after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Uneasy
Squad24 Aug 2026
26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Braga B lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Braga B say no — this time
The offer from Chaves for Diego Rodrigues was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Market24 Aug 2026
The name of Sandro Vidigal has come up in conversations Braga B were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match22 Aug 2026
Braga B rescue it on 86 minutes
Behind, and beaten by any honest reading, until minute 86. Amarante had the points in their pocket and a corner of the ground still believed, which is generally when it happens.
Squad24 Aug 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 Braga B this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Sandro Vidigal, and the manager let it.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Kauan Kelvin to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Amarante, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 1‑1, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
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Crisis
Squad17 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 10 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match15 Aug 2026
Nowhere to hide for Braga B
0‑7 against Paredes, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Guilherme Barbosa damages knee ligaments — 33 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 33 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match15 Aug 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Braga B and Paredes, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Market17 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Braga B have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the Braga B dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Diego Rodrigues 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.
The dugout17 Aug 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Samuel Fonseca after 0‑7, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
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Steady
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kauan Kelvin and Braga B agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Braga B
Rúben Furtado and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dinis Gama
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market10 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Rúben Furtado's contract
61 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Djibril Soumaré wants to know why he earns less
Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and Braga B have no good answer.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Kauan Kelvin knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kauan Kelvin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Steady
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Jónatas Noro and Braga B agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Braga B
Jónatas Noro 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Braga B training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Guilherme Costa 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.
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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Jónatas Noro's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.
The dugout3 Aug 2026
Kauan Kelvin knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Braga B, and both men came out saying it was fine.