The Cuiabá Sentinel
Squad30 Nov 2026
The knee: Fernando Sobral out for 17 days
17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Cuiabá lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Rossi breaks a bone — 85 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 85 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Émerson Ramon 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 Cuiabá this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad30 Nov 2026
A muscle injury and 14 days out for André Costa
The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Cuiabá will quote 14 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Émerson Ramon beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Pepê stands above it all
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.67 on the card, and the Cuiabá support went home talking about one name.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Paulo Martins on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Paulo Martins after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Émerson Ramon has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Cuiabá 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Cuiabá?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Avaí? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
In brief
- The dugout Lucas gets it from the manager
- The dugout The plan did not have a place for Vitão
- Market Yamil Asad linked with a move away