The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette
Match16 Apr 2029
Estudiantes de Caracas are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 23 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Match14 Apr 2029
Yeferson Savarino settles it late for Estudiantes de Caracas
The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Yeferson Savarino decided nobody was going anywhere. Portuguesa had no time left to answer.
Match14 Apr 2029
Still nobody has beaten Estudiantes de Caracas
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Juan Savarino 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 Estudiantes de Caracas this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Words at Estudiantes de Caracas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jesús Villarroel 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.
Match14 Apr 2029
Estudiantes de Caracas find a way past Portuguesa
Portuguesa made Estudiantes de Caracas work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad16 Apr 2029
No hiding place for Juan Savarino
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Juan Savarino, and the manager let it.
Squad16 Apr 2029
Estudiantes de Caracas count the cost of losing Daniel Herrera
33 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Player ratings16 Apr 2029
Yeferson Savarino was the difference for Estudiantes de Caracas
Marked 7.72. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
In brief
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Gabriel Arango
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Juan Savarino