Marked for Simón Bentancur
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings3 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match1 May 2027
0‑1 to Danubio, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad3 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rentistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad26 Apr 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Rentistas may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Match24 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Rentistas do not lose
8 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad26 Apr 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Rentistas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces26 Apr 2027
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Franco Martínez 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 ratings26 Apr 2027
Luciano Inverso was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.13. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad26 Apr 2027
“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.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Rentistas, and it is a cruel one.
Match24 Apr 2027
A 1‑1 draw with Central Espanol leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.