The Estudiantes de Caracas Gazette
Match9 Jun 2035
The wait goes on for Estudiantes de Caracas
27 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.
Match11 Jun 2035
Estudiantes de Caracas sink to position 16
3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad11 Jun 2035
Francisco Moreno keeps Estudiantes de Caracas in it on his own
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match9 Jun 2035
7 matches without a goal for Estudiantes de Caracas
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 ratings11 Jun 2035
Kleyder Barreto runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match9 Jun 2035
Estudiantes de Caracas come up short against Metropolitanos
Metropolitanos left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad11 Jun 2035
Words at Estudiantes de Caracas training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Herrera 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.
Squad11 Jun 2035
Ricardo Hernández Marchesano has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Estudiantes de Caracas will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad11 Jun 2035
The manager makes an example of Richard Gonzalez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market Sergio Ramírez leaves for nothing
- Market Junior Martinez leaves for nothing