The Veracruz Courier
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Luka Jovanović, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.73
A mark of 7.73 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Match3 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Veracruz
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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Veracruz count the cost of losing Nestor Lozano
47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match3 Oct 2026
Uriel Moreno among the goals in a wild afternoon
6 goals in one match, Uriel Moreno on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Veracruz and Cruz Azul.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Veracruz
Erik Pimentel 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.
Match3 Oct 2026
Veracruz leaking at the back
4 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
Veracruz supporters have found a favourite in Guillermo Corona
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Guillermo Corona has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
A masterclass from Uriel Moreno
Marked 8.69 — 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Guillermo Corona in the eights
A performance of 8.11 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Squad Veracruz lose Manuel Ramirez
- Match Honours even between Veracruz and Cruz Azul
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Veracruz