The Cerro Porteno Courier
Match6 Feb 2027
Cerro Porteno tear River Plate apart
Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑1 against River Plate, and it could have been more.
Market8 Feb 2027
Manuel Roffo asks to leave Cerro Porteno
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A fracture rules Iván Ramírez out for 81 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Cerro Porteno will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
A brace, and Luis Amarilla takes the afternoon — 8.92
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Luis Amarilla provided it, and the 8.92 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Blás Riveros scores twice — 8.33
Two goals and a mark of 8.33 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market8 Feb 2027
Tobías Portillo is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Cerro Porteno is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Match6 Feb 2027
Luis Amarilla among the goals in a wild afternoon
7 goals in one match, Luis Amarilla on the scoresheet, and a scoreline that will look like a misprint. Neutrals could not have asked more of Cerro Porteno and River Plate.
Boardroom8 Feb 2027
Graduation day at Cerro Porteno
2 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Player ratings8 Feb 2027
Jonatan Torres was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.72. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Market Cerro Porteno promote Angel Martinez from within
- Market Cerro Porteno promote Diego Alderete from within
- Player ratings Cecilio Domínguez was on a different afternoon to everybody else