The O'Higgins Sentinel
Market8 Mar 2027
Only the photograph left for Martín Sarrafiore
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Martín Sarrafiore will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around O'Higgins the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Bastián Yáñez was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 24. 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.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Rubinho gets the move he always wanted
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Rubinho has just signed for O'Higgins, and for once the answer mattered.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Juan Leiva stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Juan Leiva and O'Higgins agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Leandro 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 O'Higgins this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout8 Mar 2027
No hiding place for Valentino Quintero
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Valentino Quintero, and the manager let it.
Squad8 Mar 2027
Felipe Faúndez 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.
Match6 Mar 2027
Palestino snatch it back from O'Higgins
A goal on 94 minutes turned three points into one and a good afternoon into an argument about game management that will run until Saturday.
Player ratings8 Mar 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Thiago Vecino
7.90, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. O'Higgins had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
In brief
- Match O'Higgins and Palestino take a point apiece
- The dugout When it matters, Miguel Brizuela plays
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Pablo Beausejour on the draw