The Atlanta Post
Match6 Feb 2027
9 matches without a win for Atlanta
The run now stands at 9, and the questions being asked around Atlanta are no longer polite ones.
Market8 Feb 2027
Kevin Benítez hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Atlanta can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Lucas Ríos
Successful dribbles: 25. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Atlanta
Alejandro Quintana 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.
Market8 Feb 2027
Juan Carlos Ferrari is a Atlanta player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market8 Feb 2027
As if he never left: Miguel Campos returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Miguel Campos is a Atlanta player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market8 Feb 2027
Franco Morales comes home
The shirt still fits. Franco Morales is back at Atlanta, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
A masterclass from Lautaro Fedele
Marked 8.63 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Match6 Feb 2027
Honours even between Atlanta and Almagro
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
In brief
- Squad Lucas Ríos knocks on the manager’s door
- Squad Gerónimo Cardozo gets it from the manager
- Player ratings Ignacio Rodríguez leaves them behind him