The Patronato Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gabriel Díaz 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 Patronato this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match5 Sep 2026
Patronato see off Alvarado
Three points for Patronato, 2‑1 the final word against Alvarado in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Patronato training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Fernando Moreyra is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Facundo Heredia runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Hernán Rivero's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Hernán Rivero 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Maximiliano Rueda leaves them behind him
- Market The Tomás Attis question follows Patronato around
- Market Talks stall between Patronato and Lucas González