The Patriotas Chronicle
Match12 Aug 2026
The small margins put Patriotas out
Out, 0‑1 to Union Magdalena, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Juan Daniel Espitia keeps Patriotas in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Jonnier Torres
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
4 matches without a win for Patriotas
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Patriotas are no longer polite ones.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Patriotas
Brayan Fernández was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Patriotas count the cost of losing Freyn Macleyn
15 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Darwin Palomeque asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
José Móntes leaves them behind him
Shots: 7. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
The one thing Michael Nike could not do
Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.
In brief
- Match Point won or two lost for Patriotas?
- Player ratings A defender's afternoon for Juan José Hurtado