Marked for Ignacio Mujica
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad17 Aug 2037
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings17 Aug 2037
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.93 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad17 Aug 2037
Tempers go at Cerro
Cristian Barros 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.
Match15 Aug 2037
The wait goes on for Cerro
4 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.
Match15 Aug 2037
Mateo Araujo among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Mateo Araujo on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Cerro and Nacional.
Squad17 Aug 2037
Words at Cerro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tiago Simoni 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.
Squad17 Aug 2037
The manager makes an example of Bruno Miño
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Player ratings17 Aug 2037
Valentín Sienra was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.72. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Player ratings17 Aug 2037
Marked 8.66 — 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.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad24 Nov 2036
A fracture rules Nahuel Sanchez out for 103 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cerro will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad24 Nov 2036
Ignacio Mujica: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Cerro have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad24 Nov 2036
Mateo Araujo 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 Cerro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
In brief
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Squad
Nahuel Sena falls out with a teammate over standards
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Boardroom
The Cerro production line keeps running
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad18 Feb 2036
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 113 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings18 Feb 2036
A brace, and Mateo Araujo takes the afternoon — 8.83
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Mateo Araujo provided it, and the 8.83 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market18 Feb 2036
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Diago Fernández will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Cerro the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Match16 Feb 2036
Mateo Araujo scored, and precious little else went right: 3‑5 to Artigas, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.
Match16 Feb 2036
8 goals as Cerro and Artigas go for it
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 8 goals between Cerro and Artigas, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
Squad18 Feb 2036
Words at Cerro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tiago Simoni 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.
Squad18 Feb 2036
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match16 Feb 2036
Cerro keep winning on the road
3 away wins in a row. Travelling support is the truest kind, and this season it is being repaid in the only currency that counts.
Player ratings18 Feb 2036
One of those days for Bruno Miño
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.60, and no argument anywhere in the ground.