The Cruz Azul Gazette
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Omar Campos was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 41. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Cruz Azul
Nicolás Ibáñez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Cristopher Benítez
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Cruz Azul
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Erik Lira was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match17 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten Cruz Azul
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for Brayan Moctezuma
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Cruz Azul will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Andrés Desábato dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Luka Romero
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luka Romero, and the manager let it.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Jorge Pineda chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.
In brief
- Market The Willer Ditta story refuses to die
- Match Cruz Azul draw a blank against Atlas
- Looking ahead Nicolás Ibáñez goes back to face Tigres