The Metropolitanos Sentinel
Squad8 Mar 2027
A one-man rearguard from Yhonatann Yustiz
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Andrés Ferro was immovable
24 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Robert Garcés signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Robert Garcés commits to Metropolitanos for another 2 years.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Andrés Ferro 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 Metropolitanos this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Jeizon Ramírez Chacón 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 ratings8 Mar 2027
Nothing got past Isaac Ramírez
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 19 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
In brief
- Player ratings Sneider Navarro runs at them all day
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Francisco Manenti
- Match Metropolitanos draw a blank against Atletico Venezuela