The Oriental Sentinel
Match10 Apr 2027
The wait goes on for Oriental
8 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.
Match12 Apr 2027
Oriental sink to position 13
7 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad12 Apr 2027
16 days out for Sergio Sanchez after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Oriental will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Brian Lapaz: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Oriental have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Renato Alexandrino 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 Oriental this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match10 Apr 2027
Bella Vista take the points off Oriental
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Julián Kadijevic 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.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑2 Sebastian Fernandez left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Somebody else is better right now than Ángelo Gabrielli
The team sheet says it in public every week until it changes. The only version of being dropped a footballer cannot argue with, and the one he takes hardest.
In brief
- Squad Bookings catch up with Enzo Vlaeminch
- Looking ahead Christian Franco goes back to face Cerro Largo
- Squad Bruno Motta: “I am not a substitute”