The San Lorenzo Chronicle
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Alexis Cuello runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 44. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match13 Feb 2027
The wait goes on for San Lorenzo
9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at San Lorenzo
Alexis Cuello 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.
Match13 Feb 2027
San Lorenzo cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Squad15 Feb 2027
San Lorenzo count the cost of losing Agustín Ladstatter
34 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Mathías de Ritis falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
Valentino Otero: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 0‑0 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The form table has caught Mauricio Cardillo
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Match13 Feb 2027
Point won or two lost for San Lorenzo?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Vélez? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Iván Martín
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Matías Reali
- The dugout A door opens for Matías Reali