The Queretaro Sentinel
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
A brace, and Jhojan Julio takes the afternoon — 8.28
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Jhojan Julio provided it, and the 8.28 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Michael Carcelén 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 Queretaro this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Both jobs done by Enzo Giménez — 7.76
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 13 actions, 7.76, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Match13 Feb 2027
Jhojan Julio the difference as Queretaro beat Pachuca
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Jhojan Julio. 2‑1 against Pachuca, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Carlo Adriano did the work nobody counts — 6.80
10 combined actions and 6.80. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Queretaro training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bernardo Parra 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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The view from the dugout
“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Gerardo Alvarez, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Bernardo Parra
“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.
The dugout15 Feb 2027
A promise honoured for Waldo Madrid
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Queretaro told Waldo Madrid something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
- Player ratings The chances came and went for Mateo Coronel
- Looking ahead Daniel Parra goes back to face Morelia
- Squad José Sánchez has had enough of the bench