The Mirassol Courier
Player ratings3 May 2027
Nathan Fogaça runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market3 May 2027
Negueba 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 The request is on a desk at Mirassol, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match1 May 2027
Cruel end for Oeste as Mirassol pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Mirassol scored in the 92th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Tiquinho Soares, 36, rolls back the years — 8.84
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.84 at 36, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad3 May 2027
Words at Mirassol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Antonio Galeano 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.
Match1 May 2027
Mirassol find a way past Oeste
Oeste made Mirassol work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings3 May 2027
Ninety minutes of Antonio Galeano at his very best
Marked 9.33. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Mirassol.
Squad3 May 2027
Renato Marques 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 Mirassol this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings3 May 2027
A masterclass from André Luís
Marked 8.23 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
In brief
- Squad Costly mistake from Alex Muralha
- Squad Igor Cariús gets it from the manager
- Market The shop window has Neto Moura in it