Ythallo

Central Defender - Santa Clara
15 Feb 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Ythallo

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The Santa Clara Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Brenner

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

Match

The wait goes on for Santa Clara

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Match

5 matches without a goal for Santa Clara

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

A falling-out at Santa Clara

Lazar Carević and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Vinícius Lopes 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.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ivan Zlobin

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ivan Zlobin, and the manager let it.

The dugout

Half-satisfied: Nuno Neves on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Match

Santa Clara draw a blank against AVS

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. AVS defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Market

Brenner linked with a move away

The name of Brenner keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Santa Clara say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Santa Clara Sentinel

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Brenner runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 32. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

No end in sight to Santa Clara's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Santa Clara has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

The step up is real for Ythallo

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match

4 matches without a goal for Santa Clara

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Rildo 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 Santa Clara this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Lazar Carević 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.

Match

A bad afternoon for Santa Clara against Benfica

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

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Santa Clara

17 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Nuno Neves to a room that had heard them before.

In brief