Leonel Pérez

Defensive Midfielder - Grêmio
4 Oct 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Leonel Pérez

4 Edition

The Grêmio Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Grêmio bow out of the cup

Vasco da Gama go through and Grêmio go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings

Willian, 38, rolls back the years — 8.13

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.13 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Grêmio turn down Kaizer Chiefs for Miguel Monsalve

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Mathías Villasanti runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Willian 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 Grêmio this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Arthur 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.

Squad

No hiding place for Wagner Leonardo

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

Player ratings

A costly moment from Leonel Pérez

One lapse, one goal, and ninety minutes of honest work counting for nothing. That is the job at Grêmio, and it is a cruel one.

Match

Grêmio and Sport Recife take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief