The Penarol Chronicle
Player ratings12 Feb 2029
Eduardo Darias shuts the door
Defensive actions: 27, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.
Player ratings12 Feb 2029
Leandro Umpiérrez runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 23. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match10 Feb 2029
Whatever happens, Penarol do not lose
7 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Market12 Feb 2029
Facundo Pellistri comes home
The shirt still fits. Facundo Pellistri is back at Penarol, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market12 Feb 2029
Jonathan Alvarez is a Penarol player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market12 Feb 2029
Ramon Alvarez is a Penarol player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market12 Feb 2029
As if he never left: Luis Torres returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Luis Torres is a Penarol player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Player ratings12 Feb 2029
A defender's afternoon for Nicolás Fernández
Defensive actions: 21. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Squad12 Feb 2029
Penarol count the cost of losing Facundo Álvez
48 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
In brief
- Squad Penarol lose Andrés Madruga
- Squad Tempers go at Penarol
- Boardroom The ground is getting bigger