FC Porto B turnaround: from bottom to 11th with five wins after matchday 7 | OneFootball

After 14 rounds in the II Liga, FC Porto’s B team is experiencing a very positive period in terms of results. Their journey can actually be “split in two”: up until round seven, they had five losses and two draws; since then, they have lost only twice and won the other five matches, the last two consecutively against Leixões and Penafiel. At the end of the first half of the season, they were in last place; now they are 11th, four points above the relegation play-off.

Interestingly, all the victories featured João Costa in goal, an important contribution that accompanied the team’s natural evolution and which the club’s management expected would eventually be reflected in the results. Time has also allowed for better adaptation to the dynamics with the first team, which often calls on the B team for joint training sessions, as Farioli has already mentioned. Even against Malmö, for example, João Teixeira was on the bench and Bernardo Lima was called up for training the next day, in a symbiosis that has also “loaned” Tomás Pérez and Karamoh to the B team.

A more stable base is also being created to foster the integration of young players into senior football. The winger André Miranda, 18, continues to play for the under-19s, but has already started in the last two matches, while the under-17 world champions have trained daily with the B team. It is a new generation in development that will be gradually introduced in the medium term. At the Dragons, in fact, the use of slightly more experienced players is always part of the B team project, to help guide the first steps of the youngest players in professional football.

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