The Central Herald
Match10 Nov 2029
10 matches without a win for Central
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around Central are no longer polite ones.
Squad12 Nov 2029
The knee: Igor Correia out for 17 days
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Central lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad12 Nov 2029
A fracture rules Danilo Viana out for 121 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Central will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match10 Nov 2029
7 matches without a goal for Central
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 7 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Player ratings12 Nov 2029
Professor was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 23. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad12 Nov 2029
A falling-out at Central
Eduardo Brock and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Nov 2029
Words at Central training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ciro Sueldo 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.
Match10 Nov 2029
A bad afternoon for Central against Barcelona de Ilhéus
0‑2 to Barcelona de Ilhéus, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
The dugout12 Nov 2029
Máximo Suazo gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Player ratings Renato Barbosa's mistake decides it
- The dugout Eduardo Brock knocks on the manager’s door