The Corinthians Sentinel
Match5 Sep 2026
Cruel end for Sport Recife as Corinthians pounce
There is no crueller way to lose a football match. Corinthians scored in the 93th minute, the restart barely happened, and the away end was still standing when the whistle went.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Zakaria Labyad 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Yuri Alberto 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 Corinthians this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Gabriel Paulista 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Corinthians find a way past Sport Recife
Sport Recife made Corinthians work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
One of those days for Rodrigo Garro
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.57, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
A masterclass from Yuri Alberto
Marked 8.01 — 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Gustavo Henrique
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Gustavo Henrique, and the manager let it.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Breno Bidon named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Breno Bidon is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Dieguinho
- Market The shop window has Léo Agostinho in it
- The terraces The press have found their man in Rodrigo Garro