The Cerro Post
Match29 Aug 2026
Cerro win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 92th minute. Defensor Sporting will replay every second of the added time for a week.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Bruno Morales
At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Diego Capdevila gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
Match29 Aug 2026
Cristian Barros sends Cerro past Defensor Sporting
It finished 1‑0, and it was Cristian Barros’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Cerro.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Cerro
Facundo Butti 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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Leonardo Pais
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Nobody on the pitch touched Cristian Barros
7.68, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Cerro had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
Somebody else is better right now than Diego Capdevila
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
The dugout31 Aug 2026
A satisfied Emiliano Da Silva
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Emiliano Da Silva could afford to be generous.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Cerro
- Squad Cristian Barros is off the mark for Cerro
- Player ratings Mario Risso was immovable