The Arema Sentinel
Squad4 Sep 2028
A fracture rules Lucas Frigeri out for 129 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Arema will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Boardroom4 Sep 2028
Arema spell it out for Stefano Lilipaly
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Stefano Lilipaly has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Squad4 Sep 2028
A one-man rearguard from Lucas Frigeri
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Valdeci, 33, rolls back the years — 8.11
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.11 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match2 Sep 2028
No end in sight to Arema's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Arema has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Pablo Oliveira 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 Arema this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
One of those days for Gustavo França
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.16, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings4 Sep 2028
Gabriel Silva runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad4 Sep 2028
Egy Saddil signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Egy Saddil and Arema agree another 3 years.
In brief
- Match Honours even between Arema and Persebaya
- Market The Joel story refuses to die
- Player ratings Off the bench and decisive: Abdulmajid Usman