The Defensor Sporting Courier
Player ratings24 May 2027
Nobody could get near Juan Pablo Goicochea
Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 May 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Carlos Pereira
28 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Defensor Sporting lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match19 May 2027
José María Herrera sends Defensor Sporting through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and José María Herrera obliged against Boston River. 2‑1 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Defensor Sporting.
Match22 May 2027
Xavier Biscayzacú leads the rout of Montevideo City Torque
5‑1, and Xavier Biscayzacú took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Defensor Sporting tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Match19 May 2027
José María Herrera wins it after the whistle should have gone
120 minutes played. José María Herrera found the finish in time that only existed because of earlier delays, and Boston River went from a point to nothing inside one movement.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Both of them Xavier Biscayzacú's — 8.12
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.12, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad24 May 2027
Bruno Simone says Defensor Sporting went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings24 May 2027
Franco Catarozzi goes up and wins it — 7.73
A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.73 for the rest of it.
Match22 May 2027
Defensor Sporting make home a hard place to visit
11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
In brief
- Match Defensor Sporting make it 3 in a row
- Squad Lucas Agazzi in a row with a teammate
- Match Nobody could stop scoring