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The Universidad Catolica Herald

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

A 2-goal lead gone for Universidad Catolica

It is a specific kind of quiet, a ground watching a winning position dissolve. Colo-Colo kept coming because nothing stopped them, and Universidad Catolica will be asked about the last half hour all week.

The dugout

Darío Melo says Universidad Catolica went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Tempers go at Universidad Catolica

Fernando Zampedri 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.

Player ratings

A goal and an assist for Matías Palavecino — 7.89

Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.89 beside his name.

Squad

Words at Universidad Catolica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Branco Ampuero 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.

Match

The run at home goes on for Universidad Catolica

9 matches unbeaten here. Every visiting manager is asked about it in the week before, which is precisely why it keeps going.

Player ratings

One of those days for Clemente Montes

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.28, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Justo Giani in the eights

A performance of 8.14 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

Justo Giani rescues a point for Universidad Catolica

It needed Justo Giani to find the net to bring anything home at all: 3‑3 against Colo-Colo, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief

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The Universidad Catolica Herald

5 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Cristián Cuevas runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Fernando Zuqui, 35, rolls back the years — 8.03

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.03 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Market

Clemente Montes wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Fernando Zampedri 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 Universidad Catolica this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Universidad Catolica training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Agustín García Basso 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.

Match

Universidad Catolica see off Union La Calera

Three points for Universidad Catolica, 1‑0 the final word against Union La Calera in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

Clemente Montes in the eights

A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout

No hiding place for Joaquín Mattalia

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Joaquín Mattalia, and the manager let it.

The dugout

A promise honoured at Universidad Catolica

Something was said to Fernando Zampedri and then it happened. In this industry that passes for remarkable, and the dressing room noticed faster than any supporter could.

In brief