The Atlético Mineiro Gazette
Match22 Aug 2026
Atlético Mineiro tear Bahia apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 4‑1 against Bahia, and it could have been more.
Match19 Aug 2026
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 ratings24 Aug 2026
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 ratings24 Aug 2026
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 ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 ratings24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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.
In brief
- Squad Maycon is still paying for one afternoon at Atlético Mineiro
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Igor Gomes
- The terraces The stand has a song for Gustavo Scarpa