The Santa Clara Sentinel
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
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 dugout26 Oct 2026
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 dugout26 Oct 2026
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.
Match24 Oct 2026
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.
Market26 Oct 2026
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
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Wendel Silva’s exile
- The dugout Ythallo left out for tactical reasons at Santa Clara
- The dugout A door opens for Uriel Iehara