The Cruzeiro Post
Match8 May 2027
Cruzeiro cannot stop winning
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Luis Sinisterra runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad10 May 2027
Words at Cruzeiro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Lucas Romero is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match8 May 2027
Cruzeiro see off Internacional
Three points for Cruzeiro, 3‑2 the final word against Internacional in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings10 May 2027
One of those days for Denilson
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.66, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Kaio Jorge in the eights
A performance of 8.39 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad10 May 2027
Lucas Villalba 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Murilo 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 Cruzeiro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch10 May 2027
Ruan Índio counts the days
“I watch every Cruzeiro game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Corinthians runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
In brief
- Market No place for Marquinhos in the plan
- Squad Cruzeiro pick somebody else ahead of Cássio
- Market Cruzeiro put Kelvin up for sale