The Penarol Chronicle
Match19 Aug 2026
Cup progress for Penarol
A 2‑0 win over Uruguay Montevideo, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Gonzalo Gelini was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 34. 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Vintage Lucas Hernández — 8.12
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.12, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market24 Aug 2026
Penarol may not be able to give Mauricio Lemos what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Mauricio Lemos wants continental football; whether Penarol can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Penarol supporters have found a favourite in Tomás Olase
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Tomás Olase has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Number 50 for Junior Arias
50 goals for this club, and somewhere in the stand there is a person who can still tell you where they were for most of them.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Penarol training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nicolás Fernández 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Franco Romero makes it 200
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mauricio Lemos
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Player ratings Leonardo Fernández was the difference for Penarol
- Match Penarol share the spoils with Liverpool Montevideo
- The dugout The view from the dugout