The Fortaleza Sentinel
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Fortaleza
Tomás Pochettino 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
Tomás Pochettino sends Fortaleza past Grêmio
It finished 1‑0, and it was Tomás Pochettino’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Fortaleza.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Lucas Sasha falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Calebe runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Tomás Pochettino takes the honours
Marked 7.76 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Fortaleza had the best player on the pitch.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Vitinho
“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.
In brief
- Squad The manager has not finished forgetting Matheus Rossetto's mistake
- Player ratings An afternoon Matheus Rossetto will want back