Igor Gomes

Central Midfielder - Atlético Mineiro
28 Aug 2026
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Marked for Igor Gomes

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The Atlético Mineiro Gazette

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Atlético Mineiro tear Bahia apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Bahia, and it could have been more.

Match

The small margins put Atlético Mineiro out

Out, 1‑2 to Bragantino, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Player ratings

Reinier runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

A brace, and Igor Gomes takes the afternoon — 8.32

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Igor Gomes provided it, and the 8.32 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

Dudu, 34, rolls back the years — 8.00

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.00 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad

Gustavo Scarpa 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 Atlético Mineiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Atlético Mineiro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renan Lodi 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Gustavo Scarpa

Marked 8.25 — 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.

Squad

Thiago Borbas gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

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The Atlético Mineiro Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Victor Hugo

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Renan Lodi wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Atlético Mineiro hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Everson signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Everson and Atlético Mineiro agree another 2 years.

Squad

Gustavo Scarpa 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 Atlético Mineiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Atlético Mineiro training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Renan Lodi 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Atlético Mineiro against Corinthians

0‑1 to Corinthians, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Player ratings

One moment undoes Tomás Pérez

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

Squad

Renan Lodi 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 Atlético Mineiro, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The clock runs on Igor Gomes'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.

In brief