The Cuiabá Sentinel
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Pepê delivers — 7.60
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Pepê scored, was marked 7.60, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
A defender's goal wins it for Cuiabá — 7.81
1 for Fernando Sobral, marked 7.81, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Up for the corner, and Vitão delivers — 7.62
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Vitão scored, was marked 7.62, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Match8 Aug 2026
Cuiabá make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Cuiabá have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Cuiabá
Fernando Sobral and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match8 Aug 2026
Cuiabá find a way past Athletic Club
Athletic Club made Cuiabá work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Yamil Asad runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
Sinistro steps up from the Cuiabá academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sinistro has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Diego Barbosa joins the Cuiabá first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Diego Barbosa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Igor Monteiro joins the Cuiabá first team
- Market Luiz Nogueira steps up from the Cuiabá academy
- Match Cuiabá find a way past Paysandu