The Palmeiras Chronicle
Match22 Aug 2026
Palmeiras run riot against Juventude
4‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Palmeiras
2‑3 against Vitória, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
José Manuel López scores twice — 9.98
Two goals and a mark of 9.98 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Vitor Roque scores twice — 8.87
Two goals and a mark of 8.87 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Jefté runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Larson, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.72
A mark of 7.72 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A muscle injury sidelines Gustavo Gómez for 16 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Palmeiras will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Palmeiras
Alexander Barboza 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Luís Pacheco signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Luís Pacheco commits to Palmeiras for another 4 years.
In brief
- Squad Joaquín Piquerez falls out with a teammate over standards
- Match Palmeiras keep winning on the road
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Luís Pacheco