The Persebaya Gazette
Match26 Apr 2027
Persebaya refuse to drop out of the race
Position 3, 21 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Match24 Apr 2027
Whatever happens, Persebaya do not lose
10 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Age has not caught Miloš Raičković yet — 7.80
At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.80 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Match24 Apr 2027
The run at home goes on for Persebaya
10 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Jefferson 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.
Squad26 Apr 2027
Bruno Paraíba 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 Persebaya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match24 Apr 2027
Francisco Rivera sends Persebaya past Persik
It finished 1‑0, and it was Francisco Rivera’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Persebaya.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
One of those days for Francisco Rivera
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.48, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings26 Apr 2027
Miguel Pereira was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.40. 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.
In brief
- Squad Persebaya count the cost of losing Dzakwan Javier
- Squad Koko Araya gets it from the manager
- Player ratings Nothing got past Rachmat Irianto